Word: meg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made Duke of Sussex) and elevated to the peerage before the wedding. In the face of more royal regrets (from the crowned heads of Belgium and The Netherlands, and from Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish throne), commentators pointed out that the snubs were probably not directed at Meg and Tony personally, but were retaliatory slaps at the snobbery of Queen Elizabeth, who has failed to attend, or to send a representative to, many of the weddings and funerals of continental royalty. In Germany, the Hamburg Die Welt ran a cartoon showing a king on the phone to Britain, saying...
...Margaret climbed into a trailer parked close to the great radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, just south of Manchester, England. At a control panel was Bill Young of Los Angeles, who adjusted knobs and switches and then told the princess: "You push this button in one minute, 15 seconds." Meg waited. When Young said "Push," she touched the button marked "Execute Command." Red and white lights showed on the control panel, telling Young and Princess Meg that a radio signal had started from the radio telescope and was speeding across space at light's speed (186,300 m.p.sec.) toward...