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...about 35 years of age, males of the Royal Family are among the most appreciative voluntary patrons of London slapstick vaudeville, but now that George VI has assumed the throne, many loyal subjects find it slightly improper to think that such crude amusement can be either to the King's or the Queen's taste. Fortnight ago millions of provincial radio listeners to the first vaudeville Command Performance before Their Majesties agreed that the B. B. C.'s female commentator had struck exactly the right note in saying of Queen Elizabeth: "She is smiling sweetly, as though...
...plane, Prince Ludwig was informed by airway officials that the Belgian Sabena airliner carrying his family had crashed while attempting an emergency landing at fog-covered Ostend airport, killing all. Prostrate, young Prince Ludwig was rushed to the home of friends, Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten, relatives of King George VI. Additional news from Ostend added the most horrifying note to the tragedy. Searchers poking in the charred wreck of the plane stumbled on the remains of an infant, prematurely delivered when the plane crashed, lying beside the crumpled body of Grand Duchess Cecile...
...Monsignor Piz-zardo, like the Pope, is today disposed to collaborate with Fascism. As much as any prelate in the Vatican, he has the Holy Father's ear in business and financial affairs. Last May he was the Pope's legate to the coronation of King George VI, but was permitted only to sit outside Westminster Abbey in a special tribune...
...George VI as a young man witnessed the triumphant re-entry into Brussels- after it had been evacuated by the Germans-of Belgium's King Albert and Crown Prince Leopold, who is now King. In 1935 Britain's present King George and Queen Elizabeth, then Duke & Duchess of York, gave a ball in the British Pavilion at the Brussels Exposition-the last public function at which young King Leopold Ill's dearly beloved and beauteous Queen Astrid ever appeared. After her tragic death in a motoring accident in Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935), the Duke of York...
...King George VI: No mention of the League of Nations last week...