George VI won the House of Commons' permission to have Princess Elizabeth serve as one of the councilors of state in the event of his absence from the country after her 18th birthday next April. Purpose: "experience in the duties which would fall upon her in the event of her accession to the throne."
The Duke & Duchess of Windsor, having found the Duchess' 70-year-old "Aunt Bessie" Merryman nicely recovering in a Boston hospital from a broken hip, moved on to Newport for genteel whoop-de-do. Boston newspapers had counted the couple's luggage, duly reported...
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