Word: montijo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emperor begged his "dear and faithful Harriet" to undertake a special embassy to England. Trustful Miss Howard got as far as Le Havre where, stormbound overnight, she opened a newspaper and read an official announcement of Louis' betrothal to Spain's Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba and sister-in-law of the Duke of Alba. Bounding furiously back to Paris, poor Miss Howard got a second blow. All the locks in her boudoir had been smashed, the contents of her wardrobe thrown on the floor, her desk's secret drawer torn out. The secret...
...earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...