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...Airman Townsend's jacket. The simple gesture was enough to set off a fever of speculation in the press, and the speculation was enough to send the faithful aide winging into exile, as air attache in Britain's embassy in Brussels. Alerted by Royal Secretary Alan Lascelles, Winston Churchill himself had given the new Queen some blunt advice: get rid of him. Elizabeth complied, but at their last meeting she was careful to shake Peter Townsend's hand in public with a smile that seemed to many onlookers a token of encouragement...
...Queen Mary. ** She is now married to John de Lazlo, the co-respondent in the suit. Her two sons, though awarded to Peter by the court, live with her. The elder boy is at Eton. ***Anthony Eden divorced his first wife, Beatrice Beckett, in June 1950, was married to Winston Churchill's niece Clarissa in a London registry office in August...
...would quit the Cabinet. His reasoning was simple and without malice: the Queen heads the Church of England, and Margaret, as a member of her family and a potential successor to her throne, must abide by the church's rules. Eden, who is himself divorced and remarried (to Winston Churchill's niece, in a civil ceremony), had hoped to remain neutral, not fight a palace decision to approve the marriage. But Salisbury's firm opposition confronted Eden with the possibility of serious dissension in his Cabinet and perhaps even some disruptive resignations...
...mainly devoted to 200 years of British and Canadian painting, plus a portrait by Fragonard, who, the Beaver explains, "would have been French Canadian if he'd been born on the other side." But the most intriguing exhibit of the show was a series of oil sketches of Winston Churchill, never before shown to the public, which were done in preparation for Graham Sutherland's controversial portrait, presented by Parliament to its hero last year (TIME...
...June 17, 1940 a British general leaned out of a taxiing plane on a Bordeaux airfield and hauled aboard a tense, tall Frenchman who was escaping from his defeatist colleagues. Years later, Winston Churchill was to write that the Frenchman, General Charles de Gaulle, "carried with him, in this small aeroplane, the honour of France." In all the world there is probably no one more certain of this than De Gaulle himself. In his story of World War II, The Call to Honour, he plainly sees himself as more savior than soldier and ends on a mystical note: "Poring over...