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...jolted out of his usual debonair mastery of the House, even lost his temper and apologized for it. Churchill maneuvered desperately to head off an end to the bipartisanship in foreign affairs which has lasted through World War II and six years of Labor government. Abruptly, the news from Sandringham House snuffed out the whole debate. One Laborite muttered: "It's a wonderful get-out for the old scoundrel [Churchill]." The debate will be resumed, but the moment and the mood will be different...
Drawn by six black horses, a caisson bearing the King's coffin made its way from Sandringham to the railroad station, down a two-and-a-half-mile winding road lined by hushed thousands. Prince Philip and the Duke of Gloucester walked behind the caisson, followed by a limousine in which rode the women in the family, veiled in black. A special train took the royal party to London, 103 miles away. There, on a windy, rainy afternoon, the coffin was led through crowded, silent streets to Westminster Hall, where the King would lie in state until his funeral...
...Queen Elizabeth to William Shakespeare. The Queen, it seems, is 18th in descent from one Mary Whalesborough, sister of Shakespeare's great-great-great-grandmother; the Queen is also 17th in descent from one John Belknap, brother of Shakespeare's great-great-great-great-grandmother. Meanwhile at Sandringham, the Queen joined King George VI in a garden party for members of the National Federation of the Blind. The King, who has canceled all public engagements since his recent illness, leaned on a shepherd's staff and posed with his blind guests to give photographers a picture...
...nursemaid, Charlotte ("Lalla") Bill, now 77 and retired, King George VI offered his "Grace and Favor": a yellow stone cottage on his Sandringham estate where she may live, rent free, for the rest of her life. Settled in the cottage this week, surrounded by photographs of Queen Victoria and six generations of the British royal family, Lalla recalled her charges: "They were real boys, up to anything, the best any nanny would wish...
Salvos of artillery saluted her 50th birthday throughout the empire, but Britain's Queen Elizabeth saw in her second half-century quietly. At tea she sliced a small cake with pink and white icing, but no candles. In the evening a few close friends were invited to Sandringham to help the King toast her in champagne...