Word: princess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he had voiced at Fulton, 22 months before. He had seen it also follow his lead for Western unity. But he was not quite satisfied. He stomped out to the lobby after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last bid for "lasting settlement" with Russia. He was not up to his oratorical form, but grim earnestness was in his words. Said...
Thus-last week began the third act of a romantic Balkan operetta which (thus far) had carried Rumania's 26-year-old King Michael and pretty Princess Anne Antoinette Franchise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma through a lyrical, whirlwind courtship amidst the glitter of a British royal wedding and the dark second act of a Communist coup d'état in Bucharest...
...final lines of the play had not yet been written. For a month Anne and Michael planned to enjoy themselves in Switzerland* under the chaperonage of her mother, Princess Margrethe, and his uncle, Prince Nicholas. There was still no official announcement of betrothal. Political considerations, Michael's finances ($3,000 in cash, four automobiles, and a diamond-and-ruby medal given him by Stalin were all that Bucharest let him take out), and the safety of members of the royal entourage still in Rumania were plot complications still to be unraveled. But the promise of a happy ending seemed...
Britain's royal honeymooners, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, were finally granted their allowances after some House of Commons scolding (TIME, Dec. 29): ?40,000 a year...
...Princess' legs, see cut; for teddybear, see King Michael...