Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Princess Margaret...
...years ago when Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret, wound up British royalty's longest romantic melodrama since the days of Edward VIII and Wallis ("the woman I love") Simpson by dropping her hopes of marrying Group Captain Peter Townsend. For all of his qualifications as a royal spouse, the dashing Battle of Britain hero had that fatal divorce in his background. So Britons were doubly cheered when, five years later at 29, the willful Meg finally made it to the altar, this time with Antony Armstrong-Jones, the arty son of a Welsh barrister and a promising...
Unlike her predecessors, the present Queen has been trained as head of state from the beginning. It is significant to note the difference in the education she got and that Princess Margaret got, and the discipline that the Queen has been under and Princess Margaret has not. I don't say Margaret would ever have made such a good Queen. But she could have been brought up very differently. Elizabeth, thank God, married the right man, himself brought up in the navy, and has an eldest son who is also a professional naval officer...
...Princess Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg, whom Charles has hardly met, is most suitable, but this was never really on. Charles is prohibited by law from marrying a Roman Catholic. And for Marie-Astrid, a devout R.C., to renounce her faith would not be well received by a lot of people. Princess Grace's charming and amusing daughter is also a Roman Catholic, somewhat headstrong and getting married anyway. Nor do I think Charles will marry a German princess...
...take Grace Kelly, who would be, if she were the right age, admirable as Queen of England. She's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's dignified. She's got every quality. I'm mad about her, and she's the most marvelous professional princess I've ever met. When could Charles have met such an American and seen her long enough to consider marriage? A coup de foudre-this falling in love at first sight-is not the way that royal marriages are made. They invariably require growing together, mutual affection, trust, love...