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Born. To King Michael, 27, deposed King of Rumania, and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 25, member of Denmark's royal family: their first child, a daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Margrethe. Weight...
...gang dropped in for dinner at the Windsors. Winston Churchill came with his wife and daughter Sarah; Leopold came with wife Princess de Rethy, son Prince Baudouin and daughter Princess Joséphine Charlotte. Rounding out the party: Rumania's ex-King Michael and wife Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
...neither expects nor inspires pomp & circumstance, he still likes to sit up late over a poker table, drinks branch water and bourbon, and roars when his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, tells an off-color joke. He has learned to duck embarrassing questions, but he is still capable of insisting stubbornly that the spy hearings are "a red herring" long after the charge has become ridiculous...
...Juan Carlos, Prince of the Asturias, to lunch. The pale, quick-witted prince, son of exiled Pretender Don Juan (now in Portugal), is being educated in Spain under Franco's protection, looking toward an eventual restoration of the monarchy. Franco called the princeling "Alteza" (Highness). Don Juan, with Bourbon pride, called the Generalissimo merely "General...
...private car (the Aleutian), California's Governor Earl Warren, a man noted for his hearty friendliness, chatted with newsmen, read some pages of Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, leisurely drank three bourbon highballs before dinner. By midnight, as the train headed toward Utah, he was asleep...