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Like so many of the approximately 25,000 spectators who turned out for the Braemar Highland Games in Scotland, Prince Charles, 32, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, donned their tartans. During the opening ceremonies, however, Diana's highland fling turned a bit flippant: as the band struck up God Save the Queen, the young Princess continued chatting with the Prince. Hardly the proper reaction, especially when the subject of the song is standing a few feet away. Without saying a word, Queen Elizabeth turned to her daughter-in-law with that now famous "We are not amused" look...
...Braemar, Scotland, Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Anne dressed the part of wee royal Scots, looked appropriately braw and bonny, as they watched the Highland Games...
...nine weeks Fox cameramen toured Britain, shooting Technicolor background footage of the island's vistas and keeps-Caernarvon, Warwick, Braemar, Eilean Donan and Alnwick (which in the picture serves for Arthur's Camelot). The Scottish village of Dornie, used for a viking stronghold, was mostly rebuilt on the Fox lot for the big siege scene...
...Brooks and Braemar sweaters," echoed an unidentified tutor who left with Holabird; "they're loose. But these girls who try to look like a picture out of Film Fun--they disturb the digestion...
Finally there are the Washington society-producers who stage the revue type of entertainment. Among these are: Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun. Claiming the Earl of Mar as an ancestor, she built herself a medieval castle in Chevy Chase, called it "Rossdhu, Braemar Forest." She displays Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword in a glass case. She has Scotch evenings at which her Tennessee husband appears in kilts. At a ball last winter she personified "The Spirit of the Middle Ages...
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