Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kings, five queens and more than 100 princes and princesses came to Athens last week to celebrate the marriage of King Constantine to Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, and the royal flush virtually undid the ancient birthplace of democracy. Ordinary counts, barons and prime ministers languished unnoticed in hotel lobbies; telephones and traffic alike broke down; and the bridegroom daily confronted a protocol officer's nightmare. The King and Queen of Belgium, the King of Norway, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, for example, arrived on the same aircraft, requiring Constantine to march out to the plane...
...rooftops and jamming the streets, nearly a million Greeks cheered wildly on the morning of the wedding as the royal procession made its way to Athens' honey-colored Metropolis Cathedral in a storm of red and blue strips of paper, dominant colors in the flags of Greece and Denmark. To the slow roll of drums, first came Constantine, resplendent in his beribboned white field marshal's uniform, and Queen Mother Frederika, their black, red and gold coach drawn by six white horses...
Alighting at the church, the Queen gave a motherly jerk at the bridegroom's tunic to smooth a remaining wrinkle. Looking slightly dazzled as any 18-year-old bride might, Anne-Marie followed in a coach with her father, Denmark's King Frederik, nearly tripped on the 18-ft. train of her white duchesse satin gown as she stepped down from the carriage. She carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley, which later she sent to be laid at the grave of her husband's late father, King Paul...
...While 1,200 guests watched the ceremony in scorching 90° heat in the cathedral, millions more watched it live on Eurovision and special closed-circuit TV in Athens (Greece has no regular television service). Before a velvet-covered table and flanked by the royal families of Greece and Denmark, the King and his princess exchanged rings, hers made from the meltings of coins minted in the time of Alexander the Great. Golden crowns were held symbolically over their heads as Archbishop Chrysostomos intoned the 32-minute Greek Orthodox ritual (AnneMarie, a Lutheran, will join the Greek Orthodox Church later...
Spoiling Food. At week's end Makarios flew to Athens bearing yet another gift-a silver dish as a wedding present for Greece's King Constantine and his new Queen, Anne-Marie of Denmark. Declaring that "my aim has always been and always will be enosis," that is, union of Cyprus with Greece, Makarios met with Premier George Papandreou, and both announced "complete accord" on Makarios' peace offering, though the Greek government was obviously concerned about the official Cypriot delegation currently in Moscow seeking aid from Nikita Khrushchev...