Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill of abdication would then be presented and passed by both Houses (and presumably, under the Statute of Westminster, by all the Dominion Parliaments too). As now planned, the bill would deprive Margaret of all rights of royal succession, her right to become Regent if Elizabeth and Philip should die before Prince Charles comes of age, her annual ?6,000 income under the Civil List, and her function of Councillor of State, which she exercises whenever the sovereign is incapacitated or absent from the country for a long time...
Buckingham Palace would say only that the Princess would celebrate her birthday at a quiet royal family picnic beside Scotland's many-turreted Balmoral Castle. "Ruby" (Robina MacDonald, her personal maid) would tiptoe upstairs and waken the Princess with a cup of tea and the first Happy Birthday. Then there would be prayers, a breakfast of grilled herrings, the usual reading of the Sunday papers with her mother, after which the whole family would gather in the green drawing room for the opening of birthday presents, which were arriving by the dozens in sealed red mailbags...
...postwar Britain has more than recouped in numbers what it lost in splendor. Its yacht squadrons have trebled since 1939, with smaller classes ranging from 12-ft. "Firefly" dinghies to 29-ft. International Dragon sloops. More than 600 clubs now belong to the Royal Yachting Association. As in the U.S.. sailing in Britain has undergone a middle-class renaissance...
...certainly has a touch of Kidd and Blackbeard about him-at least in the eyes of landlubbers, whom he has shocked all his life. Uffa got into boats the hard way - as a 14-year-old Cowes shipbuilder's apprentice. After a World War I stint in the Royal Naval Air Service, he bagged a berth aboard Typhoon, a 45-ft. auxiliary ketch owned by two Manhattan yachting writers who had just crossed the Atlantic in 22 days. The return trip to the U.S. took three hungry, storm-ridden months. Undaunted, Uffa worked his way back to England again...
...seven straight days, more than 150 guests from every sphere of the world's business and public life will live it up in royal style, all on the house. It is quite a house: suites will rent for as much as $65 a night; each of the 450 rooms has air conditioning, TV, and imported marble baths. Outside the hotel is a 50-by-90-ft., palm-shaded swimming pool; inside, the hotel has a Bali Room restaurant and nightclub, where everything from walls to waiters is tricked out in Balinese decor; a Nordic Room studded with...