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Victoria certainly would not have approved of her ebullient great-great-granddaughter's high kicks-but then Margaret has always shown herself to be more a child of Victoria's son Edward VII, an habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set the pace for Parisian gaiety. As Mademoiselle Fifi, Princess Margaret and seven of her friends turned the embassy party into a show that would have delighted Edward's eye if not his sense of royal decorum...
Died. Prince Harald of Denmark, 72, brother of Norway's King Haakon VII and uncle of Denmark's King Frederik IX, husband of Princess Helena (expelled, after Denmark's liberation, for her pro-Nazi activities); of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...
...first royal visit to London's famed central criminal court building since their great-grandfather, Edward VII, officiated at its opening 42 years...
...power, personal gratification and money. Life would have been simpler if people had given him what he wanted in the first place. Had Katherine of Aragon given him a son & heir, he might never have married Anne Boleyn since he might have had her as mistress; had Pope Clement VII consented to annul the marriage with Katherine, Henry might never have insisted that he, not the Pope, was head of the Church in England; had the royal treasury been full, he might never have confiscated the Church lands...
...case, the baby would probably ascend the throne as George VII (the present King was known as Albert when he was a prince). Ebullient Princess Margaret pointed out the only possible drawback to the new name. "Now," she said, "I suppose they'll call me Charlie's Aunt...