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...Prime Minister of Great Britain. Waiting at the palace door to receive him was the King's equerry and grouse-shooting friend, Col. Sir Clive Wigram, and King George's favorite grandchild, little Princess Elizabeth, soberly staring over the top of her perambulator. Stanley Baldwin bowed solemnly to "P'incess Lilybet," who continued to stare, and entered the palace. For half an hour he remained closeted with the King, who was still in bed. When he emerged, Prime Minister Baldwin no longer, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M. P., Princess Elizabeth was still being trundled in the driveway. Stanley...
...real family party. Down to Windsor went royal Dukes and Duchesses, Princes and Princesses. Only the Duke of Gloucester, en route from Japan to Canada, failed to appear at the dinner table. Earliest bringers of birthday presents were the Queen's three grandchildren, chubby blonde "P'incess Lilybet and her cousins, Hubert and Gerald Lascelles, Princess Mary's two boys...
...band blared. In response, the royal family appeared within, forming an animated family portrait framed in an enormous sextuple bay window. They did not bow or speak to the crowd but stood as though unobserved. The King, looking greatly improved, chatted briskly with the duke of Connaught. "P'incess Lilybet's" small, creamy elbows rested on the window ledge. Sober, fussy, coatless, were the Lascelles boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking...
...York-England would have another Virgin Queen Elizabeth. Last week, romping in a yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess." "Lilybet's" mother, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, is herself only...