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...state of nerves. Upstairs they found Nurse Louise Roberts and Nurse Ethel Smith, a bucktoothed, grey-haired favorite of the Greek royal family who had just taken a "refresher course" at St. Christopher's Nursery Training College. After eleven months of wedlock George's Greece-born wife, Marina, was almost ready to be delivered of a child. On hand were her father, Prince Nicholas of Greece, her mother, a sister. To represent the father's family there was only Husband George. Sometime past midnight Home Secretary Sir John Simon arrived, to do his official duty as watchman...
...King's minister to stand guard in the anteroom at royal births to make absolutely certain no foundling was palmed off on the English people (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). Last week Sir John stayed downstairs, the doctors and nurses being considered witnesses enough to the authenticity of Marina's child. At 2:05 a.m. a boy was born. The doctors took ten minutes to make sure it was hale and unblemished. Then they drew up their bulletin...
Among exiled Greek royalties those who dislike beauteous Marina, Duchess of Kent, insist that this onetime Princess of Greece is a clever, ambitious minx bent on jacking up her husband into something of more consequence than the youngest and willowiest son of Britain's George V. Marina knows that Greek Premier...
...with the prestige of having just put down a Republican Revolution, is somewhat skittish about her cousin, ex-King Georgios II. One year was the short span of "Gorgeous Georgios' " kingship twelve years ago, and his childless ex-Queen divorced him recently (TIME, July 15). Two months ago Marina let it be understood that she, at any rate, is fecund. Last week the British public was supposed to think that the prospective young mother was merely resting in Yugoslavia at Prince Paul's romantic Bohinjsko Castle where she became engaged. The public was not supposed to notice that...
...small paragraphs about the Duke and Duchess of Kent had to appear, as usual,, in London society columns, the Duke was reported to be "fishing during the day" while Premier Tsaldaris conferred at the Palace with the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, and Yugoslavia's Dowager Queen Marie. Marina had the best possible excuse for not going fishing with her George. All Greece believed that she was fishing with Tsaldaris. In London the Duke was covered by Court intimations that "His Royal Highness avoided meeting Premier Tsaldaris, since His Majesty's Government would not permit such negotiations...