Word: lilybet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name. Royalty, seldom satisfied with less than six names to roll sonorously over the tongues of ushers and court chamberlains, was startled at the staccato abruptness of Margaret Rose. Even so, Londoners wagered that it would soon become even shorter, that as Elizabeth Alexandra Mary has become "P'incess Lilybet" to the press, Margaret Rose would be Princess Madge...
Four-year-old Princess Elizabeth was told by efficient Nurse Knight that she was "P'incess Lilybet" no longer but "big Sister Betty." Shouting with excitement Big Sister Betty demanded to see the new baby instanter "cause grandaddy's the King." She announced later that she preferred it to all her other pets; her chow dog, her canary, her Shetland pony Jessie, present from Grandaddy George...
...like to remain, a bachelor. Next in succession is the studious, slightly stuttering Duke of York, of whom Edward P. has often privately told his friends: "He would make a far better King than I." Third in succession at the present time is effervescent, curly-headed Princess Elizabeth, "Princess Lilybet," King George's favorite grandchild, now aged 4. Though Britain's two greatest rulers were women, politicians dislike queens. A Man-Child was sorely needed, much-longed-for last week...
...gathering of London newsmen in London last week, spoke the father of Britain's most newsworthy minor, the Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ("Lilybet") Windsor, 4. But His Royal and paternal Highness the Duke of York was not complaining. Goodnatured, he has the good sense to know that great personages tend in democracies to be public property. His mother has taught him, as she herself was taught, humility on the subject...
...Royal Highness Elizabeth Duchess of York, sole daughter-in-law of George V, King & Emperor, mother of "P'incess Lilybet" (sole granddughter), cancelled all her summer engagements. If male, her next infant will be third in succession to Britain's throne...