Word: baudouine
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...Last Trip Home. This week Cardinal Gushing would celebrate the Requiem Mass in Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral. France's De Gaulle would be there, along with Britain's Prince Philip and Prime Minister Douglas-Home, Greece's Queen Frederika, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, Belgium's King Baudouin, Russia's Deputy Premier Mikoyan, Ireland's President De Valera, Canada's Prime Minister Pearson, Germany's Chancellor Erhard, the Philippines' President Macapagal, and many more...
Queen Elizabeth II, 37, is expecting her fourth child, probably in early March. In Brussels, a court communique told Belgians that Queen Fabiola had suffered a miscarriage (her third), shortly after King Baudouin returned from a prayerful pilgrimage to Lourdes...
...first few weeks of their month-long vacation near the Spanish seaside resort of San Sebastian, Belgium's royal couple carried on like any vacationers. Then Queen Fabiola, 35, suddenly disappeared from view. Callers were politely turned away. King Baudouin showed up stag at parties. Last week the tidings leaked out. The Queen is expecting her first child. And with a history of two miscarriages, her physicians were taking no chances, ordered her to refrain from all activities and spend most of her time...
...Palace Hotel, where a single with bath can be had for $50 a day, is still the town's toniest hangout; over the past 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...
Both, before they met, had considered entering a religious order. A devout, devoted Queen who is two years Baudouin's senior, gentle, sweet-faced Fabiola plunged immediately into a punishing round of social work until the strain caused her miscarriage last year. To their delight, and courtiers' distress, even on state occasions Baudouin and Fabiola cannot help holding hands. Though she looks every inch a Queen in a Balenciaga gown and crown jewels, her people liked her best when she donned her nurse's uniform to race to Belgium's floods and recent mine disasters. Today...