Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chop Off His Head. The monarchy into which Princess Margaret was born in Scotland on the stormy night of Aug. 21, 1930, was still securely bound in the tradition of Queen Victoria. But a scant six years later, it was dealt a severe blow in the abdication of vacillating King Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed...
Equerry Townsend was often away from home. When the royal family went on tour, he went along. He spent hours playing canasta with the Queen, parlor games with the Princesses or simply chatting with the King. In 1947, he was away for 3½ months while the royal family toured South Africa. "I don't know what I'd do without you, Peter," the King told him on that trip. Rosemary Townsend, back in Windsor, was also struggling with the problem of what to do without...
...circumstances that put Elizabeth into Buckingham Palace and sent her mother and sister to the comparative obscurity of Clarence House made Peter Townsend more indispensable than ever. In the midst of a domestic crisis of his own, he took complete charge of readying the new residence, managed the Queen Mother's purse strings and even supervised the mixing of the colors for Margaret's private suite...
...gesture was enough to set off a fever of speculation in the press, and the speculation was enough to send the faithful aide winging into exile, as air attache in Britain's embassy in Brussels. Alerted by Royal Secretary Alan Lascelles, Winston Churchill himself had given the new Queen some blunt advice: get rid of him. Elizabeth complied, but at their last meeting she was careful to shake Peter Townsend's hand in public with a smile that seemed to many onlookers a token of encouragement...
...give royalty the same rights and freedoms in their personal affairs as ordinary, decent citizens? If we can have a Prime Minister.*** Cabinet ministers and judges who are 'innocent parties.' we can, without feeling unduly disturbed in our moral fibre, give the same latitude to the Queen's sister...