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...wife of an admiral who is also cousin to the King, handsome Lady Mountbatten cuts a dashing figure and runs a big house. She has never lacked cash; as granddaughter of Banker Sir Ernest Cassel, she is the life beneficiary of a ?1,406,250 (about $5,600,000) trust fund. Last week her solicitors let it be known that Lady Mountbatten was broke and would shortly ask the House of Lords to pass a bill permitting her to break Sir Ernest's trust...
Like others among Britain's newly poor, Lady Mountbatten is a victim of crushing taxes, which each year take ?65,000 ($260,000) of the ?70,000 ($280,000) she receives. But what really did her in was last year's "capital contribution," which raised her tax bill to ?100,000 ($400,000)-?30,000 ($120,000) more than she took in. Unless the Lords permitted her to dip into capital or borrow on future income, Lady Mountbatten would become a tax delinquent...
...politicians withdrew. They knew that a Papagos government would be a military dictatorship, that the U.S. and Britain would disapprove. Lord Mountbatten, who was commanding a British cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean, went ashore and gave his cousin, King Paul, some family advice...
...others: King George, Queen Mary, the dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, Lady Brabourne (Philip's first cousin and daughter of Earl Mountbatten), David Bowes-Lyon (the Queen's brother), King Haakon of Norway and Prince George of Greece...
...Sunday Pictorial suggested Franklin Delano as a possibility. Court gossips, who knew Elizabeth's and Philip's tastes, were betting on Louis or Nicholas (both Mountbatten names); there were sure to be traditionalists in on the debate who would insist on the usual David, George, Andrew, and Patrick* for the four corners of the United Kingdom. All of these might be included, but the name that he would bear if he became king would be decided by his grandfather, the present king. At any rate, Elizabeth proclaimed to friends, whether she won out on the name...