"Dear old Sandringham," murmured King George V, "the place I love better than anywhere else in the world." Three generations of British royalty felt the same way about the vast, 350-room pile in the flat fields of Norfolknever mind its drafty inefficiency. Then along came modern-minded Prince Philip, with inventories for the kitchen, time and motion studies for the help and a peck of new gadgets. Washstands were replaced by hot and cold running water, open fires with central heating. Now the work load is so low that six of Sandringham's eleven 56¢-per-hour...
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