Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday night on Long Island, and Mrs. George Fisher Baker was entertaining. The Duchess of Windsor was the guest of honor, and Mrs. Baker had invited 58 guests-the clabbered creme of New York society-to dine with the duchess and join in the quickening whirl of a new social season. Among Mrs. Baker's glittering guests none were more striking than young William Woodward Jr., 35, the millionaire sportsman, and his wife...
...plainly not that simple. No act of Margaret and no act of the British Parliament could sever her entirely from the fact of her birth. Margaret of Windsor is a Princess of Great Britain, her sister is the head of the Established Church, a church which frowns on remarriage of divorced persons and denies its sacraments to those who flout that proscription...
...into which Princess Margaret was born in Scotland on the stormy night of Aug. 21, 1930, was still securely bound in the tradition of Queen Victoria. But a scant six years later, it was dealt a severe blow in the abdication of vacillating King Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed by Victorian standards. Margaret is a Princess...
Three weeks after he was hired, Townsend and wife Rosemary were settled in a "grace and favor" cottage behind a ten-foot privet hedge in Windsor Great Park. They shared the hardships of most young married couples on service pay, and it was harder on the wife than the husband. Wing Commander Townsend had only his officer's allowances, plus an extra stipend of ?1,000 for his royal duties, and as a result the pair were far poorer than most of the people they were called on to meet...
...with the Princesses or simply chatting with the King. In 1947, he was away for 3½ months while the royal family toured South Africa. "I don't know what I'd do without you, Peter," the King told him on that trip. Rosemary Townsend, back in Windsor, was also struggling with the problem of what to do without...