Word: princess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's King George III once let his heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without...
Cheers for Honneybun. Last week they got both. As wedding bells rang out for royalty once again, sentimental London celebrated as it can only when romance is coupled with propriety. Two months ago King George VI, in answer (it was said) to the pleas of his sister, the Princess Royal, had granted permission for her music critic son, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, to marry pretty Marion Stein, whose father fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James...
Mayfair had kept a weather eye on young Milford Haven ever since Princess Elizabeth's wedding, when he served as best man. An internationally eligible bachelor who in recent years had divided his time between London nightclubs and the sale of radiators in the U.S., the young marquess had amply rewarded the scrutiny by providing Mayfair with its best gossip. Sometime ago one of his showgirl friends shocked London by climbing into the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey for a publicity gag. Several weeks ago the enterprising peer titillated the town again and got his latest business...
...time their bustles gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went. Meanwhile, President "Princess Alice" Freeman, who first organized the college into 14 departments, resigned to marry a Harvard professor. After her came Mathematician Helen A. Shafer, who set up the system of majors, and portly Caroline Hazard, the great money-raiser, who surveyed her campus from a surrey with a fringe...
...addition, Britain has just finished the big, experimental 60-passenger turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes V, and is completing the giant Saunders-Roe Princess, a lo-engined turbo-prop flying boat designed to carry 105 passengers transocean to South America...