Word: captors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miranda expects to be murdered or raped. But her gangling, awkward captor blushes at the slightest hint of indecency. He assures her he just wants her to love him. He seldom lets her out of her room, and then only after he has bound and gagged her. But he heaps her with presents: expensive foods, dresses, a phonograph. When she asks for some perfume, he brings her 14 bottles. "It's like living in The Arabian Nights," Miranda muses in bewilderment. "Being the favorite in the harem. But the perfume you really want is freedom...
Britain's bachelor Duke of Kent, 25, the first cousin of the Queen and eighth in succession to the throne, was an elusive catch. Commoner Katherine Worsley, 28, a descendant of Regicide Oliver Cromwell, seemed hardly a likely captor, yet for four years, the couple sporadically courted. A captain in the Royal Scots Guards, the Duke was a heavy-footed hot-rodder ("100 miles an hour suits me") who had waffled at least four assorted autos, a light-hearted playboy whose pranks had been questioned on the floor of Commons. While the toothy peer muddled and frolicked through Eton...
Seven years later, in 1952, they are still there. Hans, their captor, has told them of the war's progress; Germany, with its jet planes and guided missiles, is winning, and the collapse of the Allies must come soon. Dressed in civil defense uniform, he serves breakfast and dinner to his prisoners, thoughtfully supervises their exercise and frets like a mother if one of the men seems out of sorts...