Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the auction, thousands of visitors, including the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, strolled through the exhibition rooms to see the collection. When Sotheby's chairman and chief auctioneer Peter Wilson pounded his small ivory hammer to begin the sale, 400 buyers filled the firm's chandeliered main auction salon; closed-circuit television brought the auction to four smaller rooms and the nearby Westbury Hotel ballroom for the overflow. As Wilson proceeded to knock down one record price after another, the dizzying figures were flashed on an electronic board above him in pounds, U.S. dollars, French francs, Italian...
...some good drama. Arleen Augér pours out brilliant coloratura cascades in Mitridate as the old King's fiancée; Baltsa stands out as Farnace, Mitridate's arrogant son. In La Clemenza, Baker's unique timbre and intensity fire the role of the vindictive Princess Vitellia, and Burrows is appropriately regal as the forgiving Emperor. These are definitely collector's items...
DIVORCED. Princess Margaret, 47, younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; and Lord Snowdon, 48, a photographer raised to the peerage after their Westminster Abbey wedding; after 18 years of marriage, two children; in London. The routine two-minute court hearing granted the first divorce to an immediate member of the British royal family since 1540, when Henry VIII divorced Anne of Cleves...
Friends of both families hope that Princess Nur will light up Hussein's domestic life, which has been almost as stormy as his quarter-century reign over the embattled Hashemite kingdom. After establishing early in his adulthood a reputation as a playboy with a roving eye, the King was married briefly at 19 to a distant cousin. Following a divorce in 1957, he wed an English girl named Toni Gardiner and rechristened her Princess Muna el Hussein (Desire of Hussein). The King's desire waned in 1972, after he met beauteous Alia Toukan, 23, the U.S.-educated daughter...
...happy King and Alia had a prince and princess of their own and adopted a baby girl orphaned by an airplane crash. When Alia was killed returning from a flying tour to a Jordanian hospital, Hussein tearfully announced the death of "my precious companion." Before long, though, his name began to be linked with those of other women...