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| Notes for Elizabeth Colcroft |
"A small anecdote. There was a family "hangup" about the name Colcroft. Grandma (Elizabeth Colcroft Beyer) was very insistent that the name was Colcroft and not Calcraft. She noted that Calcraft had been the English hangman. Many years later, on a trip to Madame Tussaud's Waxworks in London, in the Chamger of Horrors downstairs, I saw a plaque bearing the title: J. Calcraft, Hangman to the Queen, so that part of the story is correct."48
Robert Beyer tells this story: In the last years of Elizabeth's life, she received a dozen roses one Mother's day with a card that said they were from Walter Winchell. "Who is Walter Winchell" she asked. "A scandalmonger" someone replied...probably Philip. "Oh No," said Elizabeth, "he must be a very nice man to send flowers." Winchell, the famous columnist, apparently sent flowers to selected mothers on mother's day, probably from recomendations sent in by readers or listeners.50 |
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