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...Elizabeth as the Archbishop of Canterbury sprinkled him with water from the River Jordan, Britain's 46-day-old Viscount Linley was christened David Albert Charles in the domed music room of Buckingham Palace. The ceremony over, David's proud parents, Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, set off to finish up their preparations for a Christmas en famille at the Queen's Norfolk country home, after which they planned to take a second honeymoon in the West Indies-sans the squalling viscount...
While pals from his Soho past gleefully designed him a coat of arms showing a camera over a unicorn, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, unabashedly unpacked the tools of his old trade to take the first pictures of Princess Margaret with their 2½-week-old son, David Albert Charles, Viscount Linley.*The results were acclaimed as "superb" by fastidious Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton and must have been equally gratifying to Retired Photographer Armstrong-Jones, who, peddling his shots at up to $9 a print, was taking home his first earnings in 18 months of royal matrimony...
Born. To Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 31, and Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, 31, elegant ex-commoner and onetime court photographer: their first child, a son; in Clarence House, Queen Mother Elizabeth's London residence. The 6-lb. 4-oz. child automatically received his father's secondary title, Viscount Linley, but while the Royal Family searched for proper Christian names, delighted London newspapers referred to him simply as "the Jones boy.'' He is fifth in line for the British throne, after Queen Elizabeth's three children and his mother-exactly the same position...
...magazine that would "take the story beyond what may have been printed in the newspapers," Topic emerged mostly as a creditable hash of what had already been printed in the daily press. Its cover carried a four-color photograph of Princess Margaret with the caption, STORK OVER SNOWDON. Inside, together with a 3,000-word account of the royal pregnancy (she is putting on more weight than her physicians probably approve, betrays an insatiable appetite for beef), Topic readers found the news cub-byholed under such section headings as "Britain's Week," "World Week," "Travel," "Fashion," "Agriculture," "Spirits...
...visitors can poke a curious toe into "the world's largest outdoor swimming pool" (1,600,000gallons of cold filtered brine) or ascend the highest tower in Britain, a red-painted, 520-ft. structure that once in a blue sky affords a view of Wales's Mount Snowdon, 150 miles distant. They yo-yo back and forth between fish 'n' chip houses and some of the United Kingdom's most capacious pubs (Blackpool has 105, one of which can handle 1,000 guzzlers at a time). They also toss away the oversize coins...