Encompassed by a certain block on Bruton Street, Mayfair, stand The Coach and Horses (a public house), the business establishments of a tailor, corsetiere, photographer, beautifier, decorator, and the residence of Claud George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore.
Last week his daughter, Elizabeth, often affectionately addressed as "Queen Elizabeth" by her brother-in-law, Edward of Wales, lay abed in her father's house at 17 Bruton Street, while hundreds of wellwishers drank to her health at The Coach and Horses.
As Elizabeth, Duchess of York, lay thus abed, the Duke, second son to George V., R....
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