Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edens stayed overnight. Next day it was publicly announced that the Queen was returning to London. Suddenly, all Whitehall was agog...
...Edens, returning by train, reached 10 Downing Street at 2 p.m. The Queen followed by car, arrived at Buckingham Palace at 5:20 p.m. Twenty minutes before. Eden had confronted his hurriedly assembled Cabinet ministers. Briefly and curtly, toying with a pencil in his fluttering fingers. Sir Anthony explained that his doctors declared his health was giving them cause for concern. There were very difficult times ahead, and he felt it his duty to say forthwith that his health was not good enough to sustain him through these tasks. The formal visit to Buckingham Palace followed...
...evasions that followed it, Eden damaged the world's image of Britain. History's kindest verdict may be that he meant well and should have known better. The Evolution. The initiative to resign was Eden's own. The Tory Party was caught unprepared. In theory, the Queen herself designates the new Prime Minister; in practice, the parties give her no choice at all. The Labor Party is unequivocal: it caucuses, elects a new leader, and proposes him to the Queen. The Tories, oldest of all political parties, work more subtly. In Tory eyes, open elections solidify splits...
...Phone Call. The Queen summoned only two men to advise her. First was Lord Salisbury, 62, widely regarded as the ablest Tory of them all, but disbarred from becoming Prime Minister by the unwritten 20th century understanding that he must be a member of the House of Commons. Next came Sir Winston Churchill himself. Both are longtime friends of Macmillan but only colleagues of Butler. Both, presumably, advised her to call Macmillan. But neither could have tendered that advice if the Tory Party had not reached its mysterious concurrence in the course of the long night. And what...
...Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down "for the present" the Queen's prompt offer of an earldom - the customary reward for retiring Prime Ministers. *Last year Macmillan visited his mother's home town, peered through the window of the house where she had lived, gallantly tried eating fried chicken with his fingers, and at the invitation of the pastor read...