Word: lilybet
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...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...
First child of the bonny, blooming "Little Duchess" is Princess Elizabeth of York who recently was three (TIME, April 29) Famed as "Baby Betty" before she could talk, she now asserts, "I am Lilybet the P'incess!" No one else except the Queen rides out so often with the King, in royalty's big, black, softly-purring Daimler. For three years the P'incess has been an old man's darling, may possibly learn in another three years what it is to be a younger brother's slave...
...Gran'pa!" screamed Princess Lilybet. ''Look, Aunty Mary! Look! You clap too!" Princess Mary obligingly clapped...
...Minister of Great Britain. Waiting at the palace door to receive him was the King's equerry and grouse-shooting friend, Col. Sir Clive Wigram, and King George's favorite grandchild, little Princess Elizabeth, soberly staring over the top of her perambulator. Stanley Baldwin bowed solemnly to "P'incess Lilybet," who continued to stare, and entered the palace. For half an hour he remained closeted with the King, who was still in bed. When he emerged, Prime Minister Baldwin no longer, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M. P., Princess Elizabeth was still being trundled in the driveway. Stanley Baldwin...
...blared. In response, the royal family appeared within, forming an animated family portrait framed in an enormous sextuple bay window. They did not bow or speak to the crowd but stood as though unobserved. The King, looking greatly improved, chatted briskly with the duke of Connaught. "P'incess Lilybet's" small, creamy elbows rested on the window ledge. Sober, fussy, coatless, were the Lascelles boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet...