Word: marquessate
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...matter how it is steeped, garrison life for occupation troops near the provincial Lower Saxony town of Wolfenbuttel is a weak dish of tea. But something new and refreshingly British was added when the young Marquess of Blandford, son of the Duke of Marlborough, took up station there as captain in the Life Guards, one of Her Majesty's oldest and finest regiments. The Marquess, a real sporting chap, brought not only his young bride but also the ducal hounds. The 25-year-old Marquess and his fellow officers had no trouble rounding up pink coats, and the hunt...
...icily courteous meeting with the young Marquess and his mates, Herr Lieberkuehn stuck by the law: the pink coats, hounds & horses must go. That night the Life Guards bundled up a supply of fireworks, threw in a few Very pistol flares to boot, and descended in the dark on Herr Lieberkuehn's house. It was a spectacular show, though it scared the maid half to death: she thought the Russians had finally crossed over from the East-West border only 20 miles away. Unfortunately, Herr and Frau Lieberkuehn were away at the movies, so the lads had to come...
Resignation Accepted. Local newspapers were outraged. The Soviet zone Communist radio made a big thing of it, incidentally identifying the Marquess as a former suitor of Princess Margaret Rose. After advising Whitehall in London, the British resident officer at Goslar made an apology to Herr Lieberkuehn; Blandford and his cronies paid 40 DM. ($9.90) for damage to Herr Lieberkuehn's property (two broken windows, a trampled garden). The pink coats were ordered into mothballs and the ducal hounds were sent back, tails down, to their home kennels...
Like Victoria at her first Parliament, Elizabeth II has not yet been crowned. Her crown was borne before her on a crimson cushion by the Marquess of Salisbury; a coronet of diamonds and pearls took the crown's place on her brow. A velvet robe caped with ermine hung from her shoulders, its 6-yd. train supported by two page boys. At her left walked her husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down...
...were for taking action themselves. "We cannot afford to have clowns in gaiters in the Church of England," cried Tory Viscount Hailsham. "The Dean has borne false witness not only against his neighbor but against his country and his country's friends," added aged Liberal Lord Teviot. The Marquess of Salisbury, Leader of the House of Lords, agreed that the church cannot proceed against the Red Dean ("he has not been drunk in the pulpit . . . and he has not been guilty of flagrant immorality"); he considered it "extremely doubtful" whether the state could proceed either...