Word: princess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, took a Manchester audience into his confidence on the subject of his daughter, Sharman, 21, who shares with her close friend, Princess Margaret, a liking for the gay social whirl. Confessed Douglas: "My daughter is quite beyond me. There is little I can say about...
British sewing circles went into a tizzy when a news photograph of Princess Elizabeth's private desk showed an ash tray and what looked like a cigarette box. The London Daily Express speculated whether the princess smoked in secret. Ready to believe the worst, a crestfallen spokesman for the National Society of Non-Smokers announced: "The society isn't downhearted, of course; we just have to work harder...
Alarmed at statistics that showed one divorce for every eight marriages in Britain* last year, the courageous speaker, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, went further; than either royal personages or most 23-year-olds are wont to do in speaking her mind. "We live in an age of growing self-indulgence," she warned her Mothers' Union audience, which included a turbaned matron from Lagos, "of hardening materialism and of falling moral standards . . . When we see around us the havoc which has been wrought, above all among the children, by the breakup of homes, we can have no doubt that...
When he reigned, Leopold had a reputation for disregarding his ministers' counsel. But at week's end he canceled his hunting junket, instead took his princess to Paris for an "incognito" holiday...
Idler's Workshop group will give a one-actor entitled "The Faraway Princess" this afternoon in Agassiz Theater. The production gives Idler candidates a chance to show their talent...