Word: britannia
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...into overcast San Diego Bay a bit ahead of schedule after a five-day sail up from Mexico, and the regiment of photographers onshore nudged into position. Cannons roared from the escort frigate Diomede, and a U.S. battery returned the 21-gun salute. After Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia steered toward the freshly painted yellow moorings of the Broadway Pier, her Royal Marine band played, then a U.S. Navy band. Suddenly the craning crowd of 6,000 broke into unbuttoned cheers, while several hundred reporters looked on. There were even scattered choruses of The White Cliffs of Dover...
...navy-blue silk suit and white hat. Her simple presence was grand. As she stepped off Britannia's red-carpeted gangway and set foot for the first time in the Western U.S., she waved primly to the crowd, all the while wearing her chairman-of-the-board face...
...Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry Como). So Ol' Blue Eyes blew up, understandably but in vain, about his exclusion from the Queen's smallish (50 or so) dinners aboard Britannia...
...stop Ron and Nancy from inviting Liz and Phil over for a barbecue at the ranch near Santa Barbara. Indeed, if the Reagans and the royals were not already intimate, the week should force them into friendship. Nancy Reagan will spend a day and two nights on Britannia steaming up to San Francisco, arriving well ahead of Thursday's state dinner. On Friday, the Reagans were to celebrate their 31st wedding anniversary aboard Britannia...
When the suit was filed, with Queen Elizabeth's approval, she was 6,000 miles away aboard the royal yacht Britannia, leaving La Paz, Mexico, for San Diego, the next stop on her month-long visit to North America. The target of the Sun's story, Prince Andrew, was also at sea, after a weekend recreational visit to Florida, with the Royal Navy ship on which he serves, H.M.S. Invincible. Andrew was pursued by a battalion of U.S. and foreign reporters and photographers, frenziedly but fruitlessly seeking signs of a rendezvous between the Prince and soft-porn Actress...