Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time I arrived, Great Britain's Mark Phillips had already ridden. I was crushed. It was like going to a rock concert late and finding out the band had opened with one of the two songs you knew and liked. Princess Anne was to ride in another hour, though, so all was not lost...
...returned to the crowd of craning necks and clicking shutters just in time to see Princess Anne parade before the colonists. Her performance seemed relatively good with the exception of two mistakes accented by ooohs and ahhhs from the audience...
Despite what the purists may claim, the Princess and her husband, Mark Phillips, were strong crowd pleasers. Both are world class riders; Princess Anne won the European Championships in 1971, and Phillips is a goldmedal-winning Olympian. Early that morning. Phillips had marched his bay gelding, Laureat II, right into the lead of the Dressage competition...
Weaver said he felt the princess was not considerably different--"She's just regular folks," he said. "But she feels the spotlight to be an invasion of her personal life." He added that at a party earlier in the week in which almost all of the 300 people in attendance were thrown into a pool, the Princess was included...
...manic Belgian mayor of B., who writes dotty memoirs on the rims of hotel towels and thinks everyone is a German spy; the curmudgeonly "Admiral," a half-deaf, near-blind British dowager who always seems to be bellowing for an elevator that never comes; and the defiantly gay Princess Bili, whose frenzied affection is divided between an absent Italian gigolo and an ever-present Sealyham dog that "sings" D'ye Ken John Peel? Waiting upon this odd lot of aging Everymen is an equally bizarre collection of German, Swiss, French and Italian servants who trade ethnic insults and intrigue...