Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman, but he could scarcely duck entertaining her. As an officer and a gentleman, he did his best to please by leaping lithely over a tennis net ("How good he is. Crawfie. How high he can jump!" cried Lilibet to her governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced, but if Philip remembered anything special about the visit, it concerned the following morning when, back on duty and too' sleepy to hop to at first call, he hit the deck with a resounding whack as a touchy petty...
...July 1947, newly naturalized as plain British Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, the ex-Prince of Greece, a relatively poverty-stricken sailor with only one suit of civvies to his name, moved into Kensington Palace to await the ordeal of becoming a bridegroom. "That poor young navy officer," moaned a royal valet, " he don't even have no hairbrushes...
First Gentleman. In the decade since that decorous orgy of sentimentality and ceremonial that was Britain's Royal Wedding, old colonies have become new nations. Elizabeth herself has become a mother twice over, a Queen and the first citizen of a free association of nations unlike anything in the world before. The angry towhead who once screamed to the world that he was "Philip-just Philip" has not only acquired a hairbrush, but a sonorous list of ranks and titles-he is a Knight Commander of the Garter, the officially designated "First Gentleman of the Realm,"* His Royal Highness...
...Philip was interested in more than titles. Appalled by the bumbling management of the royal household, he filled the palaces with labor-saving devices, radiotelephones, central heating, electric dishwashers and intercoms, removed unnecessary flunkies right and left to more useful work elsewhere. He boned up on modern farm technology to put the vast royal estates at Windsor and Sandringham on a paying basis, and even, according to one weary farm worker at Windsor, "told us where to plant the marrow...
Last year he persuaded the Queen to let him take the royal yacht Britannia on a four-month tour of the Antarctic and the lesser British island possessions in the Indian Ocean. This was the separation that later set off the rumors in the U.S. press of a royal rift. Elizabeth's subjects, however, were more sensible. Australians were charmed when he talked to wharf laborers, called in small groups of representative citizens for cocktails and dinner and quizzed them on Commonwealth affairs. New Zealanders remember him fondly at a lunch in Christchurch, breaking into the speeches...