Word: princess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illness may presage a happy event," the idea was loyally denied by the Queen's press secretary as "absolute nonsense." He had not been told the news. Last week the rumors were confirmed: for the first time since 1857, when Queen Victoria bore her ninth and last child (Princess Beatrice, who died in 1944), a reigning Queen of Britain was going to have a baby...
FEBRUARY BABY? asked the News Chronicle, but all the palace would say was that the royal personage would be born some time "early next year." If a boy, the child would take precedence over Princess Anne, who will be nine this week, as next in line for the British throne after ten-year-old Prince Charles. Already, the British press was sorting favorite names-George, Albert, James or Andrew for a prince; Mary, Elizabeth, Victoria or Charlotte for a princess. WELL, WHAT LOVELY NEWS, glowed the Daily Sketch. DELIGHTED, MA'AM ! added the Daily Mail...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Intellectual reminiscences of the days when the future queen of existentialism was only a restless student princess...
...huge nose. Obviously destined for a European throne, she rejected princes and kings who proposed to her or were proposed for her-Charles II of England, Alfonso VI of Portugal, Philip IV of Spain. With an annual income of nearly $1,000,000, she was the richest princess in Europe; yet the man who raided her fortune the most shamelessly was her own weak-spined father, the Duke of Orleans...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Intellectual reminiscences of the days when the future queen of existentialism was only a restless student princess...