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While the young couple spent their last unmarried weekend at the Royal Lodge in Windsor with the Queen and Prince Philip, workmen completed the 60-foot arch of roses through which the procession will pass. The 2,500 troops who will line the march rehearsed their duties and boned up on the eleven pages of orders of the day. Just opposite Westminster Abbey rose tier on tier of seats for those willing to pay $15 to $75 for a closeup view. An official tersely admitted that, so far, there is "nothing like a rush" to buy, and advertisements have been...
Playwright Cross's desperate measures for keeping melodrama afloat at all costs and his not knowing that too many wrinkles spoil the plot sink what starts off as a good realistic thriller and what, as staged by Windsor Lewis and acted by Lloyd Nolan, Alfred Ryder and others, remains a good naturalistic production. Although to scratch any of the play's characters is to find a stereotype of stage and sea, their talk is effectively racy and their mutineering instincts show promise. The trouble, in the end, is that they mutiny on the author. The play closed...
...Portsmouth, H.M.S. Vanguard, last of Her Majesty's battleships, fired a salute. Cannon roared at Windsor and Cardiff castles, and as far away as Gibraltar and Accra. Over Buckingham Palace the Queen's huge ceremonial standard was unfurled, and to all ships and shore stations the Admiralty sent a signal: "Birth of a son to H.M. Queen Elizabeth announced. Splice the main brace." As messages poured in from governments all over the world, 81-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield worked over a bit of verse that began: "O child descended from a line of kings...
...King George V himself felt obliged to discard all such "German Degrees, Styles, Dignities, Titles, Honours and Appellations to Us" as the Dukes and Duchesses of Saxony and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. While the King became plain Windsor, Prince Louis of Battenberg became a Mountbatten (a literal translation of his German name). Until the day he died in 1921, he never forgot his humiliation. Nor did his second son, Dickie, who was a 14-year-old naval cadet at the time of his father's fall, and vowed to be First Sea Lord...
...Blunder." Last year irrepressible Uncle Dickie privately published a book on his family tree claiming that until the Queen went through the formal process of adopting the name of Windsor in April of 1952, she had reigned two months as a Mountbatten, and therefore the House of Mountbatten historically "takes its place among the reigning houses of the United Kingdom." Last week, when Her Majesty announced her "will and pleasure," the press could not shake off the unpleasant conviction that Uncle Dickie was behind it all. "A victory for Prince Philip and his uncle!" growled the Daily Herald...