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...nephew, Robin Douglas-Home, used to play the piano in nightclubs for a living, was recently in the news as a dashing contender for the hand of Sweden's Princess Margaretha. His younger brother William is a successful West End playwright who once wrote a hit comedy (Chiltern Hundreds) spoofing Gentle Alec's unexpected loss of the family's "safe" Lanarkshire seat in the 1945 Labor landslide election. In his 31 years in politics, Home served as Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary (accompanying Chamberlain to Munich in 1938 and riding with him behind Hitler...
...resigning his seat in Parliament. Since outright resignation is considered a show of disloyalty to the Crown, he will follow the ancient practice of disqualifying himself by applying for a job of "honor and profit" under the Crown. This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down "for the present" the Queen's prompt...
...should say nothing, do nothing and allow themselves to be involved in no situations which would be likely to cause embarrassment to the Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with the famed pre-World War II appeasing "Cliveden Set." The tabloid Daily Sketch called the Laborites "The Yellow Travelers...
...Goddard), a high-flying blackmailer, puts the bite on the most model husband and statesman in turn-of-the-century England. Unless he publicly endorses a flagrant speculation fraud, she will expose the one piece of youthful crookedness upon which his fortune and his career are founded. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is all the more gruesomely trapped because he deeply loves his wife (Diana Wynyard), a noble but somewhat priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring (Michael Wilding), a gentle...
...Ibstone House, in the county of Buckinghamshire, 36 miles from London. There she prefers to be known as Mrs. Andrews. Ibstone is an 18th Century manor house whose back windows command one of the noblest vistas in southern England-broad fields falling away to a deep valley in the Chiltern Hills. Around the house lies the 85-acre farm, where the Andrewses raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, hogs, and pasture their purebred Jersey herd. Near the house is an immaculate modern dairy equipped with electric milkers. Miss West has been known to take visitors to the dairy...