Word: princess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONTE CARLO . . . C'EST LA ROSE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Princess Grace conducts a tour of her tiny domain, accompanied by British Comedian Terry-Thomas and French Singers Framboise Hardy and Gilbert Bécaud...
...peasant. So what do they give me? Yakutis, Miss Susan Yakutis, interprets Hilde Wangel. She has a honeyed voice, Bert, a throat that lets slip pure and full sounds. A richly voweled music breaks from her. But her face is too fleshy, her stature too mean to be a princess. She stamps and pouts too much. Here is this woman, who should be a cistern of demonic forces, and she lets you think she quarrels over prices at the butcher...
...highlight of his trip was a visit to the Palace at Monte Carlo where he and the other swimmers were guests of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace at Monaco. Somehow the Prince and Princess discovered that Krause was celebrating his 16th birthday. They gave him a regal party complete with cake and fireworks...
...baptism turned out to be quite a bash-and with good reason. Felipe is the first son of Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sophie (whose brother is the exiled King Constantine of Greece) and the first heir to the throne to be born in Spain since the monarchy fell in 1931. For the Borbóns-the Spanish branch of the Bourbons-it was a heady occasion indeed. The baby's great-grandmother, 80-year-old Dowager Queen Victoria Eugenia, ended 37 years of exile (most of it self-imposed) to fly in from Nice for the baptism...
...then saddle up and ride to the watchtower where "Princess kept the view"--an image like the scene in Ivan the Terrible in which Ivan, in seclusion, is begged to return. (Eisenstein too was a master of defamiliarization...