Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trays and crystal decanters. Throughout the kingdom, pensioners were wrapping handmade doilies and dainty little handkerchiefs monogrammed "A" and "M." At Buckingham Palace a special office was set up to inspect and display the vast piles of gifts. The occasion: this week's wedding in Westminster Abbey of Princess Anne, 23, and Captain Mark Phillips, 25, of the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards, the son of a wealthy and socially ambitious pork-sausage manufacturer...
...first wedding in the Queen's immediate family since 1960-when Princess Margaret married another commoner, Antony Armstrong-Jones -commemorative stamps were issued and commemorative medallions struck. Britain showed the loving couple in a tooth-studded closeup (3½p. and 20p.). Stamps issued for such far-flung corners of the Commonwealth as Aitutaki and the Pitcairn Islands displayed Anne and Mark with heads touching and happiness, as one newspaper put it, "welling from their smiles and expressions." For the occasion, the Courage Ltd. brewery issued a "royal wedding ale"-light in color, but extra strong...
...truth is that Anne, who ranks after her three brothers in the line of succession, is not popular in Britain. In a recent opinion poll of royal favorites, Anne ranked third from last, topping only Princess Margaret (who has a special haughty flair for alienating the public) and her cousin the Duke of Kent (who is known in court circles as "the chinless wonder"). Like her father, Prince Philip, Anne has always enjoyed needling reporters and the English paparazzi. Unlike her father, she seems to have no saving wit. When she fell off her horse during a jumping competition...
...wedding may well be the last time the spotlight shines on Anne. Fearful of her sometimes quite visible boredom at official ceremonies, Buckingham Palace has seemingly given up on her as a royal standardbearer, just as it has on Princess Margaret...
Among those who were conspicuously not invited to Princess Anne's wedding was the widow of her Great-Uncle David, King Edward VIII. Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, whose husband relinquished the British throne for "the woman I love," lives quietly in an elegant French-owned villa on the fringe of Paris' Bois de Boulogne. Charles J. V. Murphy, a former editor of FORTUNE and LIFE and an old friend of the Windsors', recently visited the duchess. His report...