Word: alexandra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...principalities and powers that no longer exist, such as Lippe-Biesterfeld. the stamp-sized German principality once ruled by the family of Prince Bernhard, Juliana's live-wire husband. Some of the noblest names were borne by hard-working royals such as Britain's globe-trotting Princess Alexandra and Dr. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II who once worked as a mechanic in a Detroit auto plant. Going Dutch with their Queen, Amsterdam's city fathers contributed $28,000 to the royal revels, while 1,500,000 loyal Dutchmen enthusiastically lined...
After ordering off the press corps to ensure privacy. Queen Juliana clapped her hands like a schoolmistress to start the dancing. Beatrix danced happily with her beau. Her younger sister Irene twined and twisted indefatigably with students and German princes. Britain's comely Alexandra was seldom separated from Prince Karl von Hesse, 25, one of the many princelings vying for her favor. One of the smoothest twisters of all was Britain's Prince Philip. Queen Elizabeth also danced but. said Italian Bandleader Cosimo Gile, "she didn't do the twist or anything like it. She danced like...
...WALDEN CASSOTTO'S NO WALLFLOWER," SAYS THAT "LIVING DOLL," ALEXANDRA ZUCK (Bobby Darin and Sandra...
Evelyn Ernest Percy Tisdall has an improbable hobby for the head of a boarding school for young children: fireworks. He also goes in for fireworks in a literary way with court-scandal biographies, such as Alexandra, Edward VII's Unpredictable Queen, and Marie Fedorovna: Empress of Russia. His latest is about the Queen whose present reputation is about as far removed from gamy gossip as it is possible to get. But in her own lifetime the black-draped Widow of Windsor was openly rumored to be having a Lady Chatterley-like affair with a Scottish gamekeeper, and Scandalmonger Tisdall...
Finding his career in banking somewhat "constricting," Britain's Viscount Eden of Royal Leamington Spa, 31, sportive bachelor son of the ex-Prime Minister, bounded off into a new enterprise-a London tourist agency. For fees ranging up to $300 weekly, the former swain of Princess Alexandra was Cooking up services ranging from auto renting to ticket broking, and an added come-on for visiting Yanks: "Introductions to the right people...