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...buck-cloo"), long regarded as the front runner for Princess Margaret's hand; and Jane Mc-Neill, 22, ash-blonde, China-schooled fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister practicing in Hong Kong. Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret traveled by special train from Sandringham to join the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and 1,600 other royal guests, socialites and privileged laborers and tenants of the Buccleuch estates (six ancestral homes, 500,000 acres) to watch the coronation year's flossiest society wedding in Edinburgh's ancient St. Giles Cathedral...
...home (she had retired from TIME'S London staff six weeks ago) to work on a story about the King's illness for the Medicine section, set Joan Bruce to digging up some of the unusual prerogatives of the British monarch, and sent A. T. Baker to Sandringham. Stopped politely by the police constable at the massive gate to the castle, Baker visited local pubs, knocked on strange doors, interviewed storekeepers who held royal warrants and talked to villagers sloshing through wet fields...
...last day, the King went shooting among the oak trees and bramble thickets of the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. Bareheaded and cheerful in the wintry sunshine, the King shot 50 hares, brought down a pigeon with a fine 100-ft. wing shot. That afternoon, pulling off his boots, George VI said contentedly to his shooting companions: "It's been a very good day's sport, gentlemen. I will expect you here at 9 o'clock on Thursday." Footman Daniel Long, who took a cup of cocoa to the King at 11 p.m. and found...
...world's wealthiest individuals. Although a monarch's private holdings (and will) are unpublished, the crown jewels are estimated at up to $140 million, and Buckingham Palace's gold dinner service at $10 million. It is impossible to price-tag the private estates at Balmoral and Sandringham, the library of Windsor Castle and the art treasures of Buckingham Palace. The Queen owns 600 of the Thames River's 800 swans, all sturgeons and whales caught in home waters, the land around the perimeter of the islands between high and low tide, all gold and silver mines...
Died. King George VI, 56; of a coronary thrombosis; at Sandringham House, Norfolk (see FOREIGN NEWS...