Word: viii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week LIFE began publication of the sequel, "A King's Story," by the Duke of Windsor. In the memorable four-part, 35,000-word account of the making and unmaking of a king, he tells for the first time how and why Edward VIII gave up his throne for "the woman I love." (The story is appearing in the London Sunday Express and papers in 29 other countries, but not in any U.S. paper...
...forth to the theater for the first time this year and King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visited Stratford-on-Avon for the Shakespeare birthday celebrations. Backstage, the King noticed that the Order of the Garter had been improperly laid out on Actor Anthony Quayle's Henry VIII costume. Sitting down on the couch, he told Quayle to roll up his trouser legs, fitted it on correctly with his own hands. Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth was also celebrating a birthday-her 24th-with the Duke of Edinburgh, on duty with the British Fleet at Malta. In the midst...
...nose." In the igth and soth Centuries, the fashion has been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both Edward VII and Edward VIII) found themselves Pragger-Waggers; and in 1890, the Rev. Talbot Rice, Rector of St. Peter le Bailey, became The Tagger Ragger of St. Pagger le Bagger. Meanwhile, an Oxford specialty was adding -er to everything: eccer (exercise), fresher (freshman), roller (roll call) and The Jowler (Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett...
Gossip columnists were annoying Rex (Henry VIII) Harrison and Actress Lilli Palmer, who is currently starring in the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. "We never go anywhere alone any more," Harrison said. "Why, even if I go out to lunch with my mother, a story will show up that mother and I are going steady...