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...Duke of Gloucester had canceled a shooting trip to hurry to London. Princess Margaret flew down from Scotland. Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, called off their plan to sail to Canada; they planned to fly over later if all went well. Even the Duke of Windsor, the elder brother whose abdication made George king, was on hand...
...Having been a sometime resident of Eton and Windsor, and having come to own an affection for the legend and tradition which abound on both the Eton and Windsor sides of the Thames . . . I resent, sir, the present Duke of Wellington's contention that his forebear did not remark that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton" [TIME...
...went to college classes at odd hours, was graduated, and finally got a job in the State Department. But during years abroad, as U.S. consul in Windsor, Ont., Stuttgart, Antwerp, Lisbon and Algiers, and as consul-general in Marseille, he did not forget his memories of Washington. When he came back to the capital as head of the visa division, he confined himself to rigid administration of the immigration laws, surrounded himself with experienced men, kept a policy of complete honesty and forthrightness with legislators. His policy worked out so well that even Nevada's crusty Pat McCarran, self...
...great night, the canal in front of the palace was choked with gondolas and motorboats. Floodlights limned the arriving guests while gapers gawked from windows made available by neighboring palace owners at up to 80,000 lire a head. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among the invited, never showed up. Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lido, stayed home. The Aga Khan (in Venetian domino), Barbara Hutton (dressed as Mozart, at a reputed cost of $15,000), Prince and Princess Chavchavadze (whose noble name is pronounced like a sneeze), and practically everyone else who was anybody was there. Shortly before midnight...
Author Bolitho, a New Zealand-born journalist, should be as familiar with his subject as any living writer. A Century of British Monarchy is his twelfth book on the members of the House of Windsor...