Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bores me," pouted a languid lady of Mayfair. "If it were somebody else's wedding, maybe I'd be as excited as the Americans seem to be. But it's the Royal Family and it bores me." A London cook and waitress politely declined a proffered holiday to celebrate the great event. "We'll go if you think we should, Madam," they told their American mistress. There were other Britons as apathetic, and some were downright resentful at the gushers of news concerning the wedding...
...last-minute directive from the Palace permitted lady guests to deck themselves in the stars and ribands of whatever orders they might possess, and-as if to keep his daughter from being outshone in the glitter-King George invested the royal bride in the broad blue riband and jeweled insignia of the Order of the Garter...
Glitter & Garter. Most Britons seemed content to call armistice on austerity for the moment at least. Some pickets at the Savoy Hotel obligingly effaced themselves when the bride turned up there for a reception. Despite royal permission that business suits be worn by gentlemen at the ceremony, wedding guests were swamping famed Moss Bros. with orders for rented cutaway coats and striped trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear...
...York Daily News's gushing "Nancy Randolph" broke the vows of silence to print the details of the royal wedding dress; "so intricately contrived," said Nancy, as to be "surely uncopyable save by Little People in a glen." Thus reassured, London papers described the dress...
While bachelors the world over mourned a lost shot at the British regency, the crowned heads of Cambridge assembled this morning in Adams House A-42, the residence of John Jay Hughes '48, to solemnize by wireless the marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten...