A very young lady lay on her back in Buckingham Palace last week and made faces at the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. Disregarding the grimaces, His Grace the Archbishop dipped his fingers in a lily-shaped solid gold font filled with water from the River Jordan and piped in an ecclesiastical treble:
"Margaret Rose, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."
The boys' choir of the Chapel Royal sang hymns. The royal family, present with...
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