Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tingling silence, Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy stood before the Archbishop of Canterbury to recite their marriage vows. In the hearing of some 200 million TV droppers-in around the world, the princess promised in a soft, firm voice "to love, cherish, and to obey" her commoner husband. When they had knelt at the altar and signed the register, the Ogil-vys marched merrily back into the pale afternoon. As they drove off in a crystal coach, bagpipers skirled a pibroch, and the great bells pealed...
...Waterloo Chamber, which is only slightly less spacious than the battlefield itself. Fueled by a lavish buffet, 1,600 bottles of a pleasant, non-vintage champagne and rivers of stronger stuff, the guests twirled and twisted until breakfast. To a man, the roistering royals approved warmly of Alexandra's match. "Thank goodness," whispered one, "she's not marrying one of those awful double-barreled German names...
...husband has no title and works for a living, but Princess Alexandra, 26, was hardly rewriting Cinderella. Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, is the handsome, well-heeled second son of the Earl of Airlie, whose ancient Scottish clan (motto: "To the End") won its English title for supporting Charles I in the Civil War-and lost it for 81 years after fighting with Bonnie Prince Charlie against Alexandra's ancestor, George II. After Eton, Oxford and the Scots Guards, Ogilvy joined the investment firm of Harold Drayton, a self-made London multimillionaire whose interests Ogilvy represents (for $300 weekly...
London, already astir with preparations for the April wedding of Princess Alexandra of Kent, 26, to Angus Ogilvy, 34, second son of the Earl of Airlie, began to bubble in earnest as effervescent Alexandra announced that her chief bridesmaid for the ceremony in Westminster Abbey will be Princess Anne, 12. The couple's gift list, filed at Harrods of Knightsbridge as a handy guide for friends, indicates that they would welcome, among other things, bathroom scales, a portable barbecue, an onyx cigarette box, a toaster, Swedish decanters...
...several years, its guests have ranged from high royalty and heads of state (Belgium's Leopold III and son Baudouin, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, France's Pierre Mendés-France, Italy's Umberto, the Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Alexandra of Britain) to plain old actors and artists (Joan Crawford, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Ava Gardner, Melina Mercouri, Lionel Hampton and Pablo Casals...