BRITISH WEST INDIES: Princess on Parade

Oh, Princess Margaret, In the atmosphere you can feel it; How everyone here is really glad To welcome Your Highness to Trinidad.

Calypso singers chanted it. and pounded on their drums: little children shrilled it, and waved their tiny Union Jacks. As she began a four-week cruise through the British West Indies last week, 24-year-old Princess Margaret knew, from the cheering crowds that lined the hot, sunny streets in Trinidad, that the welcome came from the heart.

Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister dutifully attended to the routine chores of visiting royalty. But...

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