Word: princess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another notable literary event took place at Oxford, last week. When Princess Elizabeth visited the university to receive an honorary doctorate of civil law, the "OUDS" (pronounced OWDS-the Oxford University Dramatic Society) produced a masque in her honor. Oxford had not entertained a royal visitor with this traditional Renaissance theatrical since 1636, when Charles I and his Queen Henrietta Maria paid a call*. In sunlit, flower-decked Radcliffe Quadrangle at University College, Elizabeth was ensconced beneath a blue-&-gold canopy while from a swan-shaped chariot (drawn by redheaded twins) Venus and Neptune delivered their welcoming speeches. Beneath...
Last week in Edinburgh, where, stern John Knox once thundered against the impiety of 16th Century non-Presbyterian queens,-some Scots were up to their favorite game of censuring English morals. Their targets: Princess Elizabeth and husband Philip...
...Church of Scotland itself, also meeting in Knox's city last week, said nothing. And below the Tweed there were pooh-poohs. Said one palace official: "As guests of the French people, the Princess and her husband shared in a typical continental Sunday. There would appear to be nothing wrong in that." Another who found the Scottish rebuke overly Knoxious was the Venerable J.H.L. Morrell, Archdeacon of Lewes. The royal couple, said Morrell, had "formally done their duty to God by attending divine services on God's day," then had merely "enjoyed themselves naturally and normally as people...
...Princess Margaret got the measles. The royal physician did a hasty finger-count, assured the world that she had had no contact, during the infectious period, with her sister Princess Elizabeth...
...adore humanity!" cried the visiting Princess Irene of Greece to a Manhattan interviewer. "I think everybody is interesting . . . Just people I adore. I have never met a stupid person in my life...