Word: meriel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spanking 1688 condition. Last week, for the first time since reopening, its state rooms resounded with the tinkling glasses and lively laughter of a private party. More than 400 guests attended a reception given by Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home for his soon-to-be-wed daughter, Meriel...
...Adrian Darby, 26, Home is surely where the heart is-even if Meriel Douglas-Home, 24, does pronounce her name Hume, as in fume. It started to get that way eight months ago, at a performance of Aïda, when he first met the British Prime Minister's second daughter, and now the young Oxford economics don plans to make his name hers. The wedding date is March 30 at her family's Scottish estate, The Hirsel, in a ceremony to be attended only by relatives...
While Pop, the P.M., was seeking election to Parliament in Scotland, Meriel Douglas-Home, 24, her two sisters and brother decided that they would renounce their courtesy titles (hers is Lady) because of "the love and favor and affection which they bear toward their parents." A few weeks before, Lord Home shed his own title to become just plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and that made the noble bit a little conspicuous for the children. Meriel took a proper commoner job as salesgirl at Bumpus, London's venerable bookshop. A photographer caught her melding into her new scenery during...