Seven-year-old Prince Edward, who became the Duke of Kent when his father died in a 1942 plane crash, watched with his sister Alexandra (see cut) a London parade of his mother's WRENS (Britannic WAVES). Sprucely dressed, the exquisite Marina's handsome elder son looked as though he had outgrown his interest in heaving pillows from Buckingham Palace balconies.
From her father Princess Elizabeth received the 17th of the annual birthday pearls which will make a completed necklace of 21. On the eve of her birthday she had her first solo public engagement, reviewing alone her Grenadier Guards.
Selected as "American Mother of 1943" was...
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