Word: lording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...importance of the English monarchy lies not in its power but in the power it denies to others. As Lord Carrington said: "Malta is not so important as it was, but it remains important that no one else...
...DIED. Lord Selwyn-Lloyd, 73, Sir Anthony Eden's Foreign Secretary, who with French and Israeli leaders was alleged to have engineered the ill-fated 1956 Suez Canal seizure after it was nationalized by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser; of complications from a fall and subsequent brain surgery; in Oxfordshire, England...
...finally made it to the altar, this time with Antony Armstrong-Jones, the arty son of a Welsh barrister and a promising photographer. But alas, even among royalty, ideas about divorce and duty can change. In a terse statement that took their country by surprise, Margaret, now 47, and Lord Snowdon, 48, last week announced that their 18-year marriage "should be formally ended...
Margaret rode out the shock of the divorce announcement in seclusion in London's King Edward VII Hospital, where she was treated for gastroenteritis and hepatitis. Roddy was in Tangier, accompanied-or so said the tabloids-by an unnamed blonde. Lord Snowdon, who now lives in a Kensington town house, appeared briefly to tell reporters stiffly: "I hope you will give support and encouragement to Princess Margaret when she comes out of the hospital and goes about her duties again." One paper acknowledged his own new personal status by flashing a front-page picture of "the girl Snowdon...
...Lord Kenneth Clark, narrator of TV's Civilisation: "I still go to Chartres cathedral each year and to the Parthenon every three years. Very good. Keeps your standards high...