Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving behind the home in which they lived as Duke & Duchess of York at No. 145 Piccadilly (see map, p. 21), the new King & Queen had just moved into Buckingham Palace last week. Installed with a big nursery window on the public facade of the Palace were popular Princesses Elizabeth, 10, and Margaret Rose, 6. Last week people who came to watch the daily change of the Guard amid stirring fanfare exchanged nods, smiles and waves with Their Royal Highnesses. Already Princess Betty is past mistress in attracting the popular affection inspired for 25 years by the Prince of Wales...
...better bargains than they will be in 1938 as prices inevitably rise to offset devaluation. Canadians are in the same state of mind as U. S. citizens and last week Canadian Pacific had many unbooked cabins in all classes for its Coronation sailings of the Duchess of York, Empress of Australia and Duchess of Atholl...
...with Albert as his first name, and the future King George V had managed to tuck it in second, but after the way Queen Victoria had been annoyed on Dec. 14 it became impossible to resist her will and the baby became "Prince Albert," later "Prince Albert, Duke of York" (premature headlines even made him "King Albert" upon the abdication of Edward VIII). Since it happens that "Albert" is a name the English simply do not like, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin had the Royal Family and everyone else with him in undoing the work of Queen Victoria and announcing...
...daughter of an earl and descended from the most illustrious Scottish nobility, is technically the "first commoner" to become Queen of England since Henry VIII's Queen Catherine Parr. In nothing has Her Majesty been common, except in dress, for it was undeniable that as Duchess of York she was "the sloppiest dresser in the Royal Family." This was the result of misplaced loyalty to her Scottish maid, an honest wench who, realizing perhaps more keenly than anyone else how unfit she was to dress the Queen of England, tearfully protested her inadequacy to her mistress. This peculiarly Scottish...
...King has a natural candor matching that of the new Queen. About six years after his marriage he said as Duke of York, "My chief claim to fame seems to be that I am the father of Princess Elizabeth." To a pushing cinemagnate who managed to buttonhole the Duke and make an offer as fabulous as it was vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted...