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...Queen, who likes to consider herself a Cockney by choice if not by birth, is happiest in London. Only on the express command of George VI did she consent to sit out the war in Gloucestershire. Now she is back in blitzed but unbroken Maryborough House, living in six of its 200 rooms with a handful of loyal retainers on her civil grant of ?70,000 ($280,000) a year. She hardly ever entertains any more. When she does, her meals are patriotically, chillingly austere...
King George VI quietly, unofficially turned 50, marked the day by 1) a family luncheon party, 2) a dinner for 20 guests, 3) a dance for 100. Britain's sovereign will not have his official 50th birthday for six months. The reason: English weather smiles more happily on June birthday celebrations...
Winston Churchill got the Africa Star, the Italy Star, the France and Germany Star, and the Defense Medal (similar to American theater ribbons) from King George VI. Said the King, with typical British care not to exaggerate: "Mr. Churchill should have these medals...
...another church was administered last week in the Church of England's Westminster Abbey. The occasion: the baptism, in Eastern Orthodox ceremony, of the three-month-old Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, son of young King-in-Exile Peter, heir of the Kara-George-vitches. Gold-braided George VI attended the ceremony as godfather. He thus fulfilled an obligation assumed in 1944 when he was koum (best man)* at the King's wedding to Princess Alexandra of Greece...
...their hands in gentle applause. The car stopped at the great center doorway of the Parliament Building and out stepped Alexander Frederick Augustus William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session of Parliament...