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...felt fit enough to take to the dance floor at a party at Londonderry House, and play host to 7,000 guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying...
...Bamangwatos traveled hundreds of miles along the dusty trails of their Texaslike land, bringing their own chairs for the kgotla (parliament) at Serowe. They listened intently to Seretse's most formidable accuser, his uncle and the tribe's Regent Tshekedi. For 23 years, during his nephew's minority and absence abroad, mission-educated Tshekedi had been the black boss of Bechuanaland and one of Africa's outstanding native rulers...
Tshekedi ranged all his authority and prestige against Seretse. "Chiefs pass and are forgotten, but the country goes on," he said. "Custom has been broken. It was a great wrong marrying this white woman. My nephew has killed us. He has made a precedent that the chief can marry without regard to or consent of the tribe." He insisted on a divorce: "The white woman is not suitable for Seretse and the tribe...
Tshekedi did not take defeat easily. "I warn you, my nephew," he cried. "They are using you as a tool." Then he announced: "I don't wish to divide the tribe. This white woman comes...
Married. Margaret Ann ("Peggy") Hoover, 23, eldest of the ex-President's grandchildren; and Richard Tatem Brigham, 23, Boston wool broker and nephew of New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll; in Pasadena, Calif...