Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Elizabeth, out for a rural walk with George and the Princesses near Balmoral, crossed a brook in Glen Cairn, lost her footing and fell. Injuries: "Minor cuts & bruises" on the left leg. The doctor ordered rest for two or three days...
George VI, whose Household Cavalry* participated in the liberation of Holland, got a handsome package of thanks from visiting Queen Wilhelmina: two high-stepping greys for coach duty, 30 blacks for the cavalry...
...Queen Elizabeth turned 46, celebrated quietly with the family at Windsor. The Queen Mother dropped down from London...
Engaged. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria goddaughter of the Duke of Windsor,'eldest daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, debonair Admiral of the Royal Navy, former Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, sixth Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late cricket-playing Governor of Bombay and Bengal; in London...
Fanfare for Elizabeth is just what the title says (but may not suggest). It is a study not of the reign of the great Queen but of the terrible turmoil and trumpeting that ushered in her birth, childhood and adolescence-years when the lives of privy councilors, dukes, queens, princesses, butchers and bakers hung upon a royal mood, a rash word, or a murderous plot concocted behind velvet curtains...