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Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 29, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 36, heir apparent to his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: twins, their second son and second daughter; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Names: Jean Felix Marie Guillaume, Margaretha Antonia Marie Felicite. Weight: each...
...story was old as Grimm and as new as television. It all began when 22-year-old Princess Margaretha, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf, went to London last fall to brush up her English. The princess did not stay with her distant relatives at Buckingham Palace, but boarded at $14 a week with the family of an old friend in Hampstead. She took an unpaid training job as a therapist in a London hospital, traveled to and from work on the underground. Mayfair, which had seen its share of foreign princesses, liked but was not dazzled...
Innocent Affair. One day last fall Margaretha and some friends dropped in at the Casanova Club, one of the upholstered haunts of the Princess Margaret set. There, playing a lively jazz piano, was 25-year-old Robin Douglas-Home. Tall, blond and thinly handsome, Robin was no ordinary pianist. He was nephew of the Earl of Home, who is currently the Tory leader in the House of Lords. Robin is a close friend of that young cutup, the Duke of Kent, and a frequent escort of his sister Princess Alexandra. After five years as an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders...
...ball feting French air cadets in Sweden's university city of Uppsala, Lieut. General Axel Ljungdahl, chief of the Swedish air force, executed some fancy foot maneuvers with the eldest daughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf, glamorous Princess Margaretha, 20, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelor girls...
Died. Sybella Margaretha Krige Smuts, 83, widow of South Africa's famed soldier-statesman, Jan Christian Smuts (who died in 1950); of heart attack; near Pretoria, South Africa...