Word: empresse
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Arriving in Teheran, Halsman watched an army march-past outside the palace, and was surprised to see who was taking the salute: the Crown Prince, just 16 months old. Next day Halsman photographed the Empress Farah, whom he found "very young, pleasant, serious and timid...
Ogled Oligarch. Juliana's top-ranking guests were Queen Elizabeth, one of the world's richest women.* and the Shah of Iran, whose pretty young Empress Farah was the week's most ogled oligarch. The other reigning monarchs on hand: Norway's King Olav V, Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, and King Baudouin of the Belgians, who arrived a day late in order to spare Queen Fabiola, who is reportedly pregnant, the full rigors of a royal wingding...
...with a dear smile, only 3 hours and 15 minutes late to preside over the dedication of movieland's first wax museum, a $1,500,000 white stucco building in Buena Park, Calif. Among the 65 sculptures already inside are tableaux of the Barrymores in Rasputin and the Empress, Gable and Leigh in Gone With the Wind, Pickford and Second Husband Douglas Fairbanks Sr., whom she divorced in 1936, in The Taming of the Shrew...
...Marx, "Sviataslaff, the yet Pagan Grand Duke of Russia, declared in an assembly of his Boyards [noblemen] that 'not only Bulgaria, but the Greek Empire in Europe, together with Bohemia and Hungary, ought to undergo the rule of Russia.' " Marx also quoted Derzhavin, poet laureate to Russian Empress Catherine II (1729-96): "Of what use are allies to thee, O Russian? Stride forth, and thine is the whole world...
...Manhattan, a city still impressed by the "king business," the Shah and his Empress Farah got the full treatment, including a ticker tape parade. The Empress was received backstage at Broadway's Camelot, visited the Guggenheim Muse um and the Museum of Modern Art. Diplomatically, she said that she "did not know much about modern art. But it is always very interesting for me to see and learn more...