Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philip Mountbatten [Duke of Edinburgh], who rose from almost obscurity during 1947 to become the husband of the future Queen of England...
...programs were of white silk, printed in gold. In the royal box sat King George V and Queen Mary. It was a command performance, honoring their coronation...
...last week, the Foreign Ministers' conference broke up early. It mattered little, for only disagreement was on the order of the day (see below). King George and Queen Elizabeth were giving an "evening party" at Buckingham Palace. The Russians arrived with their bodyguards, but left them in the courtyard. In the lofty Blue Drawing Room, Molotov and colleagues stuck together in a tight little knot and touched neither the champagne cup nor the whiskey and sherry. They did not even smoke. George Marshall stuck with U.S. Ambassador Douglas. Winston Churchill, looking as gloomy as his frock coat, left early...
...Victorian era into which David was born, and many a richly detailed picture of the Edwardian era in which he was reared. He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, but "to my family I was and always have been 'David.'" He recalled "the great Queen" as an old lady in a white tulle cap, black satin dress and "shiny black shoes with elastic sides. But what fascinated me most about her was her habit of taking breakfast in little revolving huts [in the grounds of her residences, Windsor, Balmoral and Osborne] mounted on turntables...
Sometimes the world that survives him thinks of George, father of the Duke, as an amiable successor to the gay and worldly Edward VII, and of his mother, Queen Mary, as the ruler of the family. But the Duke describes his late father as a stern sea dog, a domestic martinet who lived on a clockwork schedule and refused to let David go to public (private) schools lest they teach him bad habits. (" 'The Navy will teach him all that he needs to know...