Word: monarchs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Riyadh, Vance's reception was hardly more encouraging. When he delivered a personal message from Carter to King Khalid, the Saudi monarch's first question was: "Is it in Arabic?" A government statement said later that the Foreign Minister, Prince Saud, felt "his talks with Secretary Vance reinforced his own natural optimism, which he does not wish to exaggerate." Official members of the Vance party came away convinced that the Saudis will continue to support Sadat, and that they gradually will take a more active behind-the-scenes role in bridging the gap between the Arab camps. Nonetheless...
Even kings need friends, and Jordan's Hussein and Greece's deposed monarch, Constantine, are the best of buddies. When he is not at home with his wife, Queen Anne-Marie, in their ten-bedroom London abode, Constantine, 37, is often in Jordan or off traveling around the world with Hussein. The two kings visited Florida's Sea World during a trip to the U.S. last May. While in Amman, where Hussein, 41, is celebrating his 25th year on the throne, they enjoyed one of their favorite royal pastimes: practicing at Hussein's private shooting range...
...businessman, and King Carl XVI Gustaf, 31: their first child, a daughter; in Stockholm. Name: Victoria. The first child born to a reigning Swedish king and queen in 178 years, Victoria can inherit the crown only if Sweden's constitution is revised to allow a female to become monarch...
...wrote Tory Elder Statesman Lord Hailsham in the Sunday Telegraph. "The Americans have their Constitution and flag. In addition to our flag, we have our Queen." Nonetheless, as Hailsham told TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, he fears that the institution of the monarchy remains "vulnerable to a bad monarch" and that even a good Queen like Elizabeth "cannot serve as a court of appeal against the follies of democracy." For that reason, he now feels that Britain also needs a written constitution and a bill of rights. Some critics maintain that the monarchy may be an obstacle to such...
Secret Papers. Whatever the merits of the debate about the monarch's value, Elizabeth has worked hard at her job-traveling, appearing constantly at ceremonial openings, carefully studying the secret government papers in the red "boxes" (leather dispatch cases) that follow her wherever she goes. The seven Prime Ministers who have served her have attested to her impressive grasp of state affairs. Despite the rigid order of palace life, she has tried in small ways to make the monarchy a bit more modern socially-with her walkabouts, for example, or by substituting relatively egalitarian garden parties for the stratified...