Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crown of Thorns...
Before reading your Oct. 24 explanation of the Crown of Thorns by Alfred Manessier, the painting had already become a "meaningful experience" to me. I thought it was two red eggs in the nest of a mentally confused bird, over which a one-eyed crap shooter had carefully laid a spiked steel trap...
...long continue. In a nation which sets such store by seemliness, the situation was too unseemly to last. What had begun as a simple and sentimental story of a Princess in love had now become a crisis that deeply involved institutions close to the heart of every Briton: the Crown and the Established Church...
...royal family was established in Buckingham Palace, and the most beguiling member of it was an impish little Princess known as Margaret Rose. For the moment at least, all had become right again with the world, in Britain anyway. But the blow that Edward dealt the institution of the Crown was not forgotten...
...still securely bound in the tradition of Queen Victoria. But a scant six years later, it was dealt a severe blow in the abdication of vacillating King Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed by Victorian standards. Margaret is a Princess, in a predominantly socialist-minded state, who has little chance of ascending the throne...