PRINCESS ELIZABETH
OWN HOME NEXT YEAR
According to Royal tradition, this will be the last year in which Princess Elizabeth will be free to live under lie 1 ’ parents’ roof. For on April 21 the Princess will be I'7, and when she reaches her 18th birthday in April, 1944, the heir-presumptive to the British throne must set up her own establishment and live there independently until either her marriage or her father’s death. Royal tradition demands her departure from Buckingham Palace, and precedent suggests that she 'may make her horde in St. James’ Palace. During the year, Princess Elizabeth will be “voted an annuity of £6OOO, and when she comes of age i t will be increased to £35,000. The young people who will form her household are already in training, in cooking, housecraft, sewing, forestry, gardening, and l other forms of work.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 March 1943, Page 8
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