Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visibly moved. In later years there were many other casual meetings. But his older relatives seemed to find Philip more interesting than Elizabeth did. King George and Philip had long chats about the Navy. At Queen Mary's wartime home at Badminton House, the Queen Mother and her young cousin would spend hours lopping off branches to drag home for fuel...
Pale, eight-year-old Prince Philip of Greece was under no illusions. Paris in 1929 was full of exiled princes. Some drove taxis. Others were waiters. At his fashionable school in St. Cloud, Philip was always ready to take on odd jobs like waiting on tables. His mother had warned him that he might as well learn, because he too might end up as a waiter...
...Greece's King George I. Philip was sixth in line to the Greek throne. But a year after Philip's birth, his uncle, King Constantin, was tossed off the throne. Philip, his parents and his sisters* became exiles. With his family, Philip sailed to England, where his mother's father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had gained fame in the days before World War I as Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty. From then on much of Philip's life was spent visiting relatives. Philip's favorite was his Uncle Dickie Mountbatten (the Battenbergs...
...stops Ella from marrying a poet and forces her into an alliance with a worthless schoolteacher who is already married. Out of this comes an illegitimate child, who grows up and stages her own unhappy revolt against Spinster Rose. Her fate is her mother's: she is left with a child by a country dolt. This is proof, says one character, that "it is often more dangerous to break a convention than...
...corpse of the girl he has just left. Peggy Cummins, a cockney showgirl who wants to be a lady, blackmails Mature into taking her for a visit to his elegant country mansion. There she hobnobs uneasily with his jealous fiancée (Patricia Medina) and his magnificent old mother (Ethel Barrymore). She also tries to play detective, and falls in love with her main suspect. Next thing she knows, she is in line for the Bible, the moss rose, and the hair's-breadth intervention of Scotland Yard (Vincent Price...