Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story worthy of the thousand and one Arabian nights, and the British press played it with grisly gusto. ROYAL FAMILY KILL PRINCESS WHO ELOPED was the headline in the Observer, which spurred competing papers into ferreting out the lurid details. According to first reports, the tragic story involved a Saudi Arabian princess called Misha who married a commoner, thereby incurring the wrath of her princely grandfather; she was shot and her husband beheaded. Leading the Fleet Street pack was the Daily Express, which published some blurry pictures that purported to show the beheading of Misha's lover, taken...
...startled, revolted world." Later, the Express located a German-born woman in London who had been a governess to the Saudi royal family. The newspaper ran her narrative under the rubric "the real story by the woman who knew the secrets in the heart of the tragic princess...
...that the executions had taken place, apparently last July. In their protest to the Foreign Office, the Saudis insisted the pair had not been married at all. Indeed, they stressed that marriage of a member of the royal family to a commoner is no crime in Saudi Arabia. The princess and her lover had been executed after a "sentence by an Islamic court for adultery?and for an adulterous act the law is death." According to the Saudi protest the British press stories had "distorted reality and constituted an abuse of the intentions of Islamic law which is based...
...students at the institute. Along the way there are trots through the school's history and considerable crosscutting to onstage performances by the great Kirov company, for which the school supplies dancers, and to the more experimental Maly company, also located in Leningrad. The movie is narrated by Princess Grace of Monaco, Her Highness being at her most serene and elocutionary in this role...
...BORN. To Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of England, 27, and Captain Mark Phillips, 29: their first child, a son; in Paddington. The first grandchild for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip is fifth in succession to the British throne...