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...parish church, the Archbishop of Canterbury intoned, "We commend to God Winston Spencer Churchill as he approaches death." A private message from the Pope was delivered by Monsignor Cardinale, the apostolic delegate to Britain. There were special prayers at Harrow, his old school, and at Castle Rising, near Sandringham. where the Queen and members of the royal family attended church...
...became King. But as heir apparent, he set the style of English society for nearly half a century, determining who should be included and who excluded and where one should go when. The social year, as decreed by Bertie, consisted of two months (January and February) of shooting at Sandringham, two months (March and April) on the French Riviera, followed by three months in London for "the Season." No gentleman was seen in London after the end of July, when the Prince of Wales went to Cowes for the yachting, followed by a month or so in a German...
...gleefully taken off after those natural targets, Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. John Gordon, editor and crusty columnist of the Sunday Express, congratulated Prince Philip, when the Queen was about to give birth to Prince Andrew, "on being able at last to leave his bird shooting at Sandringham and rejoin his wife at this exciting moment of her life." Last January he announced acidly that "Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon leave for a holiday in the West Indies to recover from the strain of their almost workless year...
After a long Christmas vacation at her Sandringham country home, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II returned to London accompanied by Prince Philip and their three royal moppets, notably including husky young Prince Andrew, eleven months. The holidays over, Elizabeth and Philip set off on a historic tour of Britain's former Indian empire. First stopover was in Cyprus, where no British monarch has set foot since Richard the LionHearted (in 1191). Over an orange squash, the Queen chatted cordially with bush-bearded President Archbishop Makarios, so recently a mastermind of the Cypriot revolt against the Crown. Flying...
...romance burgeoned without anyone outside the royal family being the wiser? Only last month the London Sunday Express solemnly intoned that it was "by no means certain" that Margaret would ever marry. When he went to stay with the royal family at Balmoral last summer and at Sandringham this winter, everyone concluded it was just a case of "Tony's taking some more of his pictures." In contrast with Group Captain Peter Townsend, whom Margaret renounced in 1955 because he was a divorced man, Tony Armstrong-Jones maintained total secrecy about his courtship...