Word: princess
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That was in 1840. Last week, as Britain's Princess Elizabeth and her husband returned from their Scottish honeymoon, members of the House of Commons were once again deep in debate over royal allowances. A special committee recommended raising Elizabeth's income from ?15,000 to ?40,000 a year and granting Philip an annual ?10,000 of his own. Laborite after Laborite decried the extravagance, protesting loudly that the royal couple should share the nation's austerity. But as the wrangling proceeded, Philip and Elizabeth found an unexpected champion in the arch-champion of Laborite austerity...
TIME'S reporting of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was a joy to read [TIME, Dec. 1]. It seemed to reach in and capture the very essence of that most beautiful and impressive ceremony...
...blue," the British press dubbed him when he came to England last month dressed in a blue suit, shirt, tie and socks. With quiet dignity, the man in blue had paid official calls, passed in & out of Buckingham Palace during the week of Princess Elizabeth's wedding, worked late at his suite at the Dorchester. There had been a weekend with Prime Minister Attlee at Chequers, and a Savoy reception by the Canada Club. Once Mr. King slipped away to visit his portrait painter, Artist Frank Salisbury, at Hampstead. There, after dinner, Mrs. Salisbury had played his favorite, Handel...
...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...
Last fortnight, her 2,500-word report on the Princess Elizabeth wedding was dashed off in time to make the London Evening Standard's early afternoon edition and the New York Herald Tribune's morning edition (TIME, Dec. 1). It was a mood piece with one notable dig at the Labor government. Her jab was about a huge national savings advertisement sign opposite Westminster Abbey: "An imaginative administration would surely have blanketed it for this...