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Word: lillibet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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Princess Elizabeth, Britain's 19-year-old heiress presumptive, who recently gave an inkling of what goes on in her pretty young head by choosing Bing Crosby as her favorite crooner, waltzed with a chef in the Royal Servants' Hall of Buckingham Palace. In the same room Lillibet's royal father was taking a whirl with the butler's wife, and her mother with a footman. The occasion: the household staff's annual Christmas party, at which the members of the royal family customarily democratize, the staff admirably Crichton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: First Families | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Lillibet and David. Right now the Queen is watching the ladylike gamboling of her favorite granddaughter Princess Elizabeth (TIME, Nov. 26), with a mildly critical eye. "Lillibet" can have some fun before she becomes Queen, but she must take care not to become another David

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mary Regina | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Duke of Windsor). In Lillibet's case Grandma has modernized her idea of fun to include such excursions as that of last week, when the Princess and a party of friends dined & wined at the Bagatelle, one of Mayfair's toniest nightspots, till past midnight, listened to a red-haired Russian sing Englishmen Never Make Love by Day, danced rumbas and tangos till the band went home. Elizabeth's escort was an old family friend, married, bespectacled Charles Villiers (pronounced Villers), a former colonel in the Grenadier Guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mary Regina | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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