Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband was dull. Now she realizes she could never endure a relationship with Burton." But Elizabeth's banker husband Neil Balfour, 30, did not drop his divorce suit against her, and Richard sent an emissary over to woo her back. The last court-circular announcement came from Burton: "Princess Elizabeth and I are going to be married." And he added: "We shall be together at Christmas...
...Since the family has remained at Giscard's old house at 11 Rue de Benouville, while he sleeps most nights at the Elysée Palace, rumors have inevitably floated about presidential liaisons. Salon savants have linked him with at least one actress, one photographer and two princesses (one domestic, one foreign). Italian Princess Domietta Hercolani and French Photographer Marie-Laure de Decker are the only two who have been honored in the past by explicit mention in the press. The unpublished catalogue of alleged paramours, however, grows daily, and threatens to become the French equivalent...
...Britain's Princess Anne, there is no living down her occasional lapses in horsewomanship. At a charity fund-raising evening sponsored by the Grand Order of Water Rats, an entertainers' organization, Anne and Husband Captain Mark Phillips arrived to accept a check on behalf of the Police Dependents Trust. "Have you fallen off any good horses lately?" cracked Basil Brush, a puppet fox and star of a children's tele vision show. Replied Anne coolly: "You don't fall off good horses...
...owlish, however, about the clear fact that fairy tales address with considerable delight some persistent human need, at the very simplest, to half-believe that every life is a mysterious personal adventure worth pursuing to the bitter end. Why? Because -who knows? - every faithful goose girl may become a princess, every mean, usurping maid become a deserving corpse. This fine re-edition of the 210 Grimm tales first printed in the U.S. in 1944 is full of wonders and murders, long-suffering younger sons who make it and bad giants who don't. It is a great...
...down by a contributor, Gordon himself dashed off a column that was such a success that he kept it up for over 30 years. His weekly "Current Affairs" sometimes tilted at members of Britain's royal family. Gordon bridled at the suggestion that Mark Phillips, Princess Anne's cavalry-captain husband, be given a title. No British monarch, the argument went, has ever had commoners as grandchildren. "Well, wouldn't this be a jolly good time to start?" Gordon snapped...