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Heartened, the boys grabbed trays from waiters, flung steaks, bullied the customers into sitting on the floor, singing campfire songs and joining a conga line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...protest! I protest against the expressions used with regard to our Crown Princess Juliana: "Plump Princess Juliana . . . [danced] the conga. . . . She slipped, and stayed down, while [the Duke of Gloucester] tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...seems highly improbable that: 1) our Crown Princess would dance the conga, and 2) that this vulgar dance would be allowed at Buckingham Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Royal Pratfall. As the kings (5) and queens (6), ruling and retired, began to arrive, the royal family's eight-year austerity unbent. At a dance at Buckingham Palace, plump Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was dancing a conga with Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. She slipped, and stayed down, while Harry of Gloucester tried to tug her up amid a moment of embarrassed silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dearly Beloved | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...levelheaded daughter who enjoys reading the latest best-sellers (For Whom the Bell Tolls was a favorite), knitting (she hates sewing), and gossipy teas with Margaret and a few girl friends before an open fire at the Palace. Even her revels are circumspect affairs. Once when she led a conga line around the Palace the sentries saluted as the dancers passed. The nightclubs she haunts are the most fashionable, her guests impeccably aristocratic, and a Scotland Yard operative is always on hand to choose a table and clear a path to the ladies' room. Elizabeth is sometimes curt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ein Tywysoges | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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