Word: princess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the wedding only a fortnight away, everybody was beginning to get a bit jittery. To a friend last week, Princess Elizabeth confessed that she was "already frightened at the thought of walking up the aisle." However, Elizabeth's sister Margaret, undaunted, confided that she herself means to be married before long. Palace spokesmen were quick to deny all rumors. But after an engagement party at Giro's last week, one sharp-eyed newsman was ready to swear he had seen Princess Margaret and Philip's first cousin, the 28-year-old Marquess of Milford Haven, holding...
...Edinburgh as a suitable dukedom for their son-in-law. More excitable gossips were aghast at a story that Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., had ordered from a Hollywood firm six pairs of Nylon stockings with clocks of seed pearls as his present to the Princess. In Washington the pained British Embassy promptly scotched that story...
...produce today must be severely practical, it must also be without taste or beauty." As gifts of everything from stuffed pillows to sewing machines piled up in St. James's Palace (TIME, Nov. 10), a young lord asked Elizabeth what she needed most: "So far," said the Princess, "we're awfully short on silver and Mummie and Daddy haven't passed any over...
...Soviet Military Governor Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky made his contribution to the occasion by taking "administrative measures" against a German newspaper that criticized the planned lavishness of Princess Elizabeth's wedding in the face of European hunger...
...true "Glasgow weather," some 30,000 Glaswegians gathered one day last week at the rain-drenched, mist-shrouded shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...