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...good week for Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, 47, Deputy Colonel in Chief of the Royal Anglian Regiment, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Highland Fusiliers and, among other things, president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Suffering from flu, the princess lay ill abed at Windsor Castle, where the royal family had assembled for an extended Easter holiday. There, according to well-placed reports, Queen Elizabeth II had a serious talk with her younger sister about Margaret's swinging lifestyle. Reason: the princess's reputation, as well as her health, was ailing. Not only...
Small wonder that Donald Toner of South Windsor, Conn., chose to ignore the three dunning letters addressed to his wife by the state's department of transportation. Carline Toner was killed last October when her car collided with a garbage truck, and now the state, having determined that she was to blame, was demanding $34.15 to cover the cost of cleaning up the highway. When her widowed husband failed to reply, the state filed suit against Mrs. Toner in Windsor's small claims court. With that Donald Toner asked Attorney James Throwe to fight the claim-and Throwe...
...week of festivities* began at Windsor Castle. As a crowd of more than 200,000 looked on, Elizabeth ignited a 35-ft.-high bonfire atop a hill near the ancient castle. Within minutes, 101 more hilltop fires were flaring from one end of the British Isles to the other. It was a reminder of a difficult moment in the reign of her namesake and ancestor, Elizabeth I; similar fires had been set in 1588 to warn the country of the approaching Spanish Armada...
...HOUSE OF WINDSOR...
Ginger Cookies. What can a poor legendmaker do with a late 20th century woman whose avowed model is Queen Victoria? By way of apology, Lacey theorizes that the sepulchral gloom of blacked-out Windsor Castle during World War II helped turn a "serious child into a serious girl." Certainly nobody could work harder than Lacey to put a little color in the girl's cheeks. He makes the most of her first meeting at 13, over ginger cookies and lemonade, with the brilliantly blue-eyed naval cadet who was to become her husband. Whenever possible the subject is shown...