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Next day, at Sandringham, King George VI signed a proclamation formally dissolving Britain's Parliament. A few minutes later, the Lord Chancellor was speeding back to London to have the Great Seal affixed to the proclamation in the House of Lords, and by morning the mechanism of Britain's complicated election machine had finally begun to function. The campaign was officially...
Britain had election fever. All week, there was mounting speculation about when & if Prime Minister Clement Attlee would announce the date of Britain's impending general election. On Sunday, Attlee motored from his country residence at Chequers to confer with King George at Sandringham Castle. To clear the way for the election, the King would have to dissolve the present Parliament, issue writs calling a new one into session. Barring a last-minute switch, the British general election will be held Thursday...
George VI was feeling better, too. This week he and Queen Elizabeth planned to go down to their place at Sandringham, hoping that the country air would be good for his ailing...
...national identity card by number only. At the risk of a ?2 fine imposed by law on anyone not registering a child's name within 42 days, the royal infant's full name would not be decided upon until just before his baptism at Sandringham at Christmas time...
Unprincely Life. At Sandringham, the Duke recalls, King Edward VII occupied the merrily run "Big House" while David lived with his family in a "Bachelors' Cottage." "When the whole family was assembled under the roof, together with a lady-in-waiting for Mama and an equerry for Papa, a governess for Mary and one or two tutors for my brothers and myself, 'The Cottage' was full to bursting, so much so that when a puzzled visitor asked where the servants slept, my father answered that he didn't know, but supposed it was in the trees...