Word: dragoon
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...ceremony itself, performed by the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was eloquently simple. There was a flourish of trumpets from the Queen's Dragoon Guards, Mark's regiment. Then, while the guests sang Glorious Things of Thee Art Spoken, the princess strolled down the aisle on her father's arm. Behind her followed her only attendants: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 9, daughter of Princess Margaret, and Anne's brother Prince Edward, also 9. She promised "to love, cherish and to obey." The groom slipped onto her finger a wedding band that had been...
...little handkerchiefs monogrammed "A" and "M." At Buckingham Palace a special office was set up to inspect and display the vast piles of gifts. The occasion: this week's wedding in Westminster Abbey of Princess Anne, 23, and Captain Mark Phillips, 25, of the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards, the son of a wealthy and socially ambitious pork-sausage manufacturer...
...rescued damsels in distress. Not any more - not even British princesses. Last week, Buckingham Palace announced "with the greatest pleasure" the engagement of Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, 22, to Lieut. Mark Phillips, 24, a hand some commoner in the Queen's Dragoon Guards...
...patroness of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, so a number of her subjects found it shocking that Princess Anne went out fox hunting three times while visiting the Yorkshire digs of her new beau, Lieut. Mark Phillips of the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards. Declared the League Against Cruel Sports: "Animal lovers are appalled that the princess appears to be able to do no better with her leisure time than to help beat the daylights out of foxes." From the RSPCA, one militant group demanded that the Queen "express regret" or resign from...
...that happened because two British army regiments-the 3rd Carabiniers and The Royal Scots Greys-decided to merge early in 1971 and form The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. To honor the new armored infantry regiment, now stationed in West Germany, RCA's European division released an LP by the guards' 48-member bagpipe band. A few months ago, a late-night disk jockey in London took a fancy to one of the tracks on the album, Amazing Grace, and began promoting it. As performed first by the soloist, Pipe Major Tony Crease, then by the full band...