Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To her Majesty Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, 37, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and'Northern Ireland, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, 42, Duke of Edinburgh: their fourth child, third son (third in line to the succession); in Buckingham Palace; an event that sent a 41-gun salute echoing across London, spliced Royal Navy mainbraces the world over, brought forth one of Poet Laureate John Masefield's instant odes, bidding...
...campaign charge. And saying that would make no sense at all because Carey is Capitol Hill's champion father. Last week his brood of twelve became a baker's dozen, but he still passes the test that often confounds fathers with only half a dozen. Says he: "Alexandra is 18, Christopher's 16, Susan's 15, Peter's 13, Hugh Jr. is 12, Michael's 10, Donald's 8, Marianne's 7, Nancy's 6, Helen's 4, Bryan's 3, and Paul is 16 months." The newest member...
Between now and May, no fewer than four little noble bundles will be dropped on the doorsteps of Princess Alexandra, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Kent. With Britons as crazy about betting as they are, it was only a matter of time before a Royal Stork Stakes was organized. Now in Portsmouth two enterprising bookmakers have announced that they are accepting bets on the sex and names of the royal tots-to-be. George, Mary and Philip are 10-to-l favorites for Elizabeth's baby, but the odds makers are covering all angles. For example...
...troubles piled up. His daughter Alexandra sickened and died when she was four. For the next five years, Fuller worked out of Chicago for a company set up to market a building material invented by his father-in-law. They actually put up 240 houses, and Bucky learned a lot about building, but he was a hopelessly poor executive and as much of a fool about money as he had been at Harvard-living wildly beyond his means and rapidly laocoönizing himself in debts and superdebts. He was also hitting the bottle. "The minute I was through work...
...carrier daughters; Beatrice, who married Prince Henry of Battenberg, had two affected sons and a carrier daughter. Alice's elder carrier daughter Irene married Prince Henry of Prussia; one hemophilic son, Waldemar, lived to 56, but another died at four; Alice's younger carrier daughter Alexandra married Czar Nicholas II, was murdered with him and their hemophilic son, the Czarevitch Alexis. Beatrice's daughter Victoria Eugenie married Alfonso XIII of Spain, had two affected sons, Alfonso and Gonzalo, who bled to death after accidents...