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- <title>
- (1940s) Princess Elizabeth
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
- PEOPLE
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- Princess Elizabeth
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- <body>
- <p>(July 21, 1947)
- </p>
- <p> In the enforced secrecy of the last three months, Britain's
- Princess Elizabeth had grown sullen and snappish from yearning
- to tell the neighbors all about Philip. Last week she was
- smiling radiantly as garden party guests clustered near her,
- hoping for a glimpse of her ring. "It's like turning a page in
- a book," she said.
- </p>
- <p> The Cousin. Lieut. Mountbatten had not always seemed so
- important to his royal cousin. When Elizabeth first met him at
- a Palace luncheon given by her grandparents, she was six.
- Reports say that she was not visibly moved.
- </p>
- <p> Gradually, as Philip became a fixture in the family circle,
- his name crept into Elizabeth's tea-table talk. Her friends
- began to have their suspicions, and often prankish Princess
- Margaret would infuriate her sister by wondering out loud if
- Elizabeth's heart was jumping when Philip was due for a visit.
- Then, last fall, Philip spent several weeks with the Royal
- Family at Balmoral. By the time Philip's visit was over,
- Elizabeth's mind was made up, and she told her father all about
- it.
- </p>
- <p> Then, last week, King George inserted a notice in the Court
- Circular. "It is with the greatest pleasure," it ran, "that the
- King and Queen announce the betrothal of their beloved daughter
- the Princess Elizabeth to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten."
- </p>
- <p> Philip got leave and drove up from his naval station in
- Wiltshire to move into the Boule Room at Buckingham Palace.
- While London's crowds thronged before the Palace, Elizabeth and
- Philip appeared at last in public, their arms proudly and openly
- linked.</p>
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- </article>
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