Word: orl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laurents spent their summers at He d'Orléans, near Quebec. It was there that Lawyer St. Laurent, master of the house and the law, failed to master the automobile. Time & again he smacked the family car into the gateposts. At the wheel, he sat up so ramrod-straight that the children often giggled. Thereupon he would stop the car and refuse to go on until the laughing stopped. He still does not drive a car; when he wants to ride in Ottawa, he calls a taxi...
Married. Dom Joāo de Orléans e Bragança, 33, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, now a captain in the Brazilian air force; and Princess Fatima, 26, sister-in-law of Egypt's King Farouk; she for the second time; in Sintra, Portugal...
Only once did he unbend, at a bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there...
Seville prepared for Europe's most glamorous wedding of World War II-Dom Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece...
...Paris homecoming began on August 25, when TIME's chief War Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker and LIFE's photographer Bob Capa jeeped through the Porte d'Orléans directly behind the armored car of General Jacques Leclerc. As soon as they had shaken loose from the cheering, flower-throwing crowd they looked up a longtime member of our Paris staff who had spent the last four years in German-occupied Paris. She told them that the French had sealed up our old offices on the Champs Elysées until the authorities could find out what damage...