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Britain's aging Queen Victoria, pottering about the halls of Windsor Castle in 1892, came upon a five-year-old boy eating grapes. She gave him a kindly pat on the head, for he was the son of her personal chaplain, Canon J. N. Dalton. "Go away, Queen," shouted the brash little boy, "I'm eating grapes." Unamused, the Queen exclaimed: "What a loud voice that...
...book finds Radcliffe "somewhat saturated with Harvard men" but says that anyone who "can tie a good Windsor" is likely to pass. The list of Boston night spots in the 'Cliffe write-up is so comprehensive that many of the girls have ordered copies so they will be able to answer the old "Well, where shall...
...trousering. On all sides would-be wedding guests were maneuvering for one of the precious invitations being addressed by a corps of Palace secretaries. Palace authorities refused to name the 2,000-odd included on the list. A few omissions were known: Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Windsor, and his Duchess, for instance, and Philip's three sisters, whose princeling husbands were all good Germans throughout...
...them. He does not forget that the Atlantic has a bigger circulation in California than in Massachusetts. In the Atlantic's ivy-covered Back Bay brownstone home on Arlington Street, opposite the Public Garden, Weeks labors at a furious pace. He does much of his work in a Windsor chair with his lap full of manuscripts, shortens interviews by seating visitors in an uncomfortable straight-backed Italian chair...
...July 17, 1917, King George V renounced his German titles, changed the name of Britain's royal house from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Following his request, his cousins of the house of Battenberg became Mountbattens...