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... livening the somewhat sorribre colours of wartime clothes by wearing sequin-covered veilings over their hair which scintillated round the house when the lights were lowered. Mrs. Kenneth Thornton was in the house to see her mother, Zena Dare, playing the ...
... /)ty A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country At Home ALTHOUGH the party given by Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten was organised at short notice, owing to the uncertainty of the date of Lord Louis's departure for his new task in India, over 300 people responded ...
... 0 UJ /)ty A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Queen Mary in the West Country SURELY there can be no more conscientious and wholehearted war- worker than Queen Mary. Living quietly in the country in the home which she has made her own since the outbreak ...
... 0 c^j 6g /)*y A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Duchess of Gloucester ONLY a véry small handful of people, even in the Court circle, knew about the Duchess of Gloucester before the official announcement that H.R.H. will be undertaking no further ...
... c^d CM A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Wedding GUESTS at the early spring wedding of the Hon. Patricia White, daughter of Lord and Lady Annaly, which took place in the unusual and romantic setting of the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, by special ...
... A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Investiture THE recent Investiture which the King held at Buckingham Palace was the first full size Royal function of the year, and the first Investiture of 1945, and a number of those honoured in the New Year's ...
... c^J 6^ /)^ty A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Birthday HIS MAJESTY'S official birthday was this year again allowed to pass without any of the ceremony that marked it in peace days, and we shall have to wait till the end of the war against Japan ...
... C.. (i /)ty A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country At the Palace IN spite of the interruptions of flying bombs which, it is at last permissible to say, have been seen to appear over London, Their Majesties have, as far as possible, continued to carry ...
... 0.. G A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country At the Palace THREE Investitures inside a week is some thing new even in the wartime annals of Buckingham Palace. The first was a normal Service Investiture, but the other two were of special interest, inasmuch ...
... the spring. That the Ambassador should be en larging the house is not surprising, for house- construction is a hobby of his, and one of his present plans is to install a swimming-pool at his house on Gezireh his wife is a keen swimmer, so she is eagerly ...
... ON AND OFF DUTY A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Opening of Parliament IT was by the happiest of coincidences that the day on which final victory was at last proclaimed should be that arranged for the State opening of the new Parliament: and both ...
... COUNTRY HOMES IN WARTIME No. 3: CADBURY COURT, NEAR YEOVIL, SOMERSET It was in July last that Sir Archibald and the Hon. Lady Langman first offered beautiful Cadbury Court to the Princess Christian Hammersmith Day Nursery as an evacuation centre for children ...