Word: lilybet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lilybet was riding out last week when she read on screaming red posters in the street that her daddy is King and asked, "But what has happened to Uncle David?" She is now crown princess but not Princess of Wales for that title is never borne except by the wife of a Prince of Wales...
...home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter "Lilybet" (together with her marked facial resemblance to Queen Mary) insures her great popularity with Britain's masses...
...Majesty King Edward VIII and the heir to the throne, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, flew in the same plane 300 miles last week, inspecting aircraft stations. An accident might thus have instantaneously made charming 10 year-old Princess ("Lilybet") Elizabeth, the Sovereign Queen and Empress...
Majesty, the royal and imperial grandmother asked amiably: "Whom have I the honor of receiving?" Announced Lilybet: "Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug!" This caused not a flicker upon the countenance of Her Majesty, but after the game was over she asked, "How did you happen to think of such queer names?" "Oh, we didn't think of them," explained Lilybet. "While we were dressing up to play, Uncle David came in. We told him we needed some new names and he suggested 'Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug...
...Earl & Countess of Athlone; and Capt. Henry Abel Smith, 32, of the Royal Horse Guards; in Balcombe, Sussex. Present were Queen Mary, Prince Edward of Wales (once reported engaged to Lady May) and most of the royal family. Among the bridesmaids: Princess Ingrid of Sweden, small Princess "Lilybet" who thus made her début. Lady May wore the lace veil which Queen Mary and the Countess of Athlone had worn, omitted "obey"-first British royal bride...