Word: margaretha
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...First to be married in June was Princess Desiree, 26, third oldest granddaughter of Sweden's Gustaf VI Adolf. A beautiful, gifted textile designer, she married Baron Niclas Silfverschiold, a rich, landowning aristocrat, and will live in a 40room, 400-year-old castle. Desiree's elder sister Margaretha, 29, also will be in the headlines this week when she mar ries British Businessman John Ambler, 40. She will do the cooking in their Knightsbridge flat, but decided against promising to "obey" him in her marriage...
...beneath the crown." says France's Princess Isabelle. daughter of the French Pretender, the Count of Paris. A commoner should of course have money. Sweden's royal family ruled British Playboy Robin Douglas-Home (nephew of Foreign Secretary Lord Home) "unsuitable" as a consort for Princess Margaretha because of his low income. "You can't expect this young lady to get along without at least one maid," explained a palace spokesman...
Simple & Sensuous. Torun early discovered that most European women had only two choices in buying jewelry: either the impossibly expensive or the gaudily cheap. Her own pieces sell for as little as $4, rarely cost more than $120. Torun's clients include Sweden's Princess Margaretha, Ingrid Bergman, Juliette Greco, Oona Chaplin and Duke Ellington. Once, in Biot, an 80-year-old washerwoman stopped Torun in the street and said: "I saw your daughter Pia wearing a lovely necklace. Would you make one like it for my daughter?" Happily, Torun...
...inherited duty. His ancestors were border lairds who fought alternately for the English and the Scots. His nephew, Robin Douglas-Home, used to play the piano in nightclubs for a living, was recently in the news as a dashing contender for the hand of Sweden's Princess Margaretha. His younger brother William is a successful West End playwright who once wrote a hit comedy (Chiltern Hundreds) spoofing Gentle Alec's unexpected loss of the family's "safe" Lanarkshire seat in the 1945 Labor landslide election. In his 31 years in politics, Home served as Neville Chamberlain...
...Margaretha Walk yesterday displayed an attractive and well-trained voice in the title role, and W. Clarke Hudson brought more than enough skill to the part of her would-be-detective spouse. Peter Brown was amusing in the mute role of the butler...