Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banner headlines. Scarcely 24 hours after Harold Wilson's sudden resignation announcement, Britain's front pages were taken over by a zinging royal marital drama. At week's end a pair of terse announcements confirmed the breakup of the long-troubled 16-year marriage of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon. A clipped bulletin from Kensington Palace, the Snowdons' London residence, stated that the two "have mutually agreed to live apart. The princess will carry on her public duties unaccompanied by Lord Snowdon. There are no plans for divorce proceedings." A spokesman for Margaret...
Silver Stud. Tales of Margaret's independent habits also got around. Most recently, the stories have focused on the close companionship between the princess, now 45, and Roderic ("Roddy") Llewellyn, 28, a brewery owner's son. Llewellyn, who sports a silver stud in his left ear and favors jeans and tank tops, recently accompanied Margaret-for the third time in three years-on a vacation to the Caribbean island of Mustique, where the Snowdons keep a four-bedroom retreat. Back home, according to London's News of the World, Roddy has had Margaret out on weekends...
...Townsend had divorced his wife, a wedding seemed to be the next thing on Margaret's agenda. But Queen Elizabeth, as head of the Church of England, could not sanction the marriage of her younger sister, then third in line to the throne behind Prince Charles and Princess Anne, to a divorced...
...million a picture and all the Givenchy clothes she could wear, Audrey Hepburn seemed immovably fixed as Hollywood's romantic princess. Then in 1969, she quietly married Dr. Andrea Dotti, a handsome Italian psychiatrist nine years her junior. She moved to Rome and dropped out of the movies. The scripts continued to arrive-and be rejected-until, attracted by the challenge of playing the part of a woman who, like herself, is 46, she agreed to star in Robin and Marian. Last summer she arrived on location in Spain with a retinue consisting of her personal hairdresser, makeup woman...
...looked on the screen after her long absence, because she did not see daily rushes on location. This week she finally saw Robin and Marian at its New York premiere at Radio City. When asked what she thought of herself, she replied in the manner of her unforgettable princess in Roman Holiday: "I shall have to see it again before I decide...