Word: princess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winding up an impressively ceremonial week, Princess Margaret headed for a rest at Balmoral Castle after a visit...
...Does Princess Margaret still love Peter Townsend? Into print in the U.S. last week loomed the latest answer to the old poser: The Peter Townsend Story, by Political Journalist Norman Barrymaine, a friend of Townsend's. Barrymaine, leaning heavily on unidentified sources, says that the princess is still that way about her old flame, once told him that she "was too deeply in love with him ever to marry anyone else." "My belief," says Barrymaine, without unearthing any new evidence, "is that Princess Margaret would still like to marry Peter Townsend," although "at the moment the religious and political...
...special diet for a low-calorie fee (sample: $37 for eight weeks' advice, plus $17 for the diet lists). Despite palace "No comments," Hollanders thought that De Cock might soon be paring a few more royal lines: at Juliana's side during the speech was Crown Princess Beatrix, hefty for her 20 years, and an estimated 10 Ibs. heavier than last year...
...Anglican Church's position in the Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend brouhaha: "The inevitable mush-headed vicar has put in his appearance . . . There could be a slightly Gilbert and Sullivanish flavor to the whole affair-royal background, star-crossed lovers, Episcopal blunderbuss, aging clerical sap, now for the mustard and cress-if it weren't all so desperately troubling . . . The lives of two people . . . her duty and his ... a chaotic moral theology . . . Romantic individualism was masquerading as the Gospel-is there anyone not moved to the, deepest and most penitent intercession for all concerned...
...This dull dumpling of a princess," says Author Kronenberger in his first-rate biography, "adored Sarah for her looks, her quick mind, her unfettered personality; this inveterate stickler for form would put aside for Sarah the one great advantage she possessed, her rank." After they were married (Anne to Prince George of Denmark, Sarah to dashing young Colonel John Churchill, future Duke of Marlborough*), Sarah, at. the Queen's suggestion, addressed her royal mistress as "Mrs. Morley," became herself "Mrs. Freeman." Their husbands, joining in this playacting, were cast as "Mr. Morley" and "Mr. Freeman...