The King vs His Subjects

One hundred years ago today - April 21st 1926 - HRH The Duchess of York gave birth to a daughter at the London home of her father, the fourteenth Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. The house at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair no longer stands because Canadian Pacific demolished it to put up a luxury hotel, which itself no longer stands. But until recently the little girl born on the site still stood, and kept the House of Windsor standing too. I thought she would still be with us on this day - her mum made her century - but...