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...only my trousers split." But it was not only his trousers which kept leaving Walpole open to ridicule. All prepared to lecture on Charles Dickens, he would mount the platform only to find the subject was expected to be "Life Begins at Fifty." In Westminster Abbey, at George VI's coronation, it was Walpole's invitation card which slipped from its holder's tremulous fingers and floated down upon members of Parliament...
Britain's royal family was about to get a raise. A special parliamentary committee appointed to draw up a Civil List for the reign of Elizabeth II last week recommended an increase of $182,000 a year over George VI's allowance of $1,148,000. Even so, Elizabeth II* will be getting much less than her great-grandfather, Edward VII, did back in 1901 when the pound was worth three times as much...
...VI. Thou shalt not gossip...
...blaze of pomp & circumstance, Britain's Royal Family ended its four-month period of mourning for King George VI. Last week all the Queen's horses* and all the Queen's men discarded the trappings of grief (black rosette for horses, black arm bands for men) and buckled on the breastplates of pageantry. The occasion was the traditional Trooping the Color in honor of Elizabeth II's 26th birthday. Actually, she became 26 last April 21, but like her December-born father agreed to celebrate in June so that her subjects would be more...
...According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Pope Alexander VI had at least four illegitimate children...