Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept a deliberately low profile in Rome. The King, his pretty, temperamental Danish-born wife, Queen Anne-Marie, 26, and their three small children live in a modest but handsomely situated rented villa on the Via di Porta Latina. Queen Mother Frederika, 56, and Constantine's sister, Princess Irene, 31, live in a more secluded villa north of Rome. Except for occasional appearances at horse shows and the like, all avoid Rome's lively social scene...
Anne had prepared Britons for the possibility of a nonroyal match from the time she grew into long-legged womanhood. "Princesses are getting a bit short on the [marriage] market," she once noted. "I'll soon be next, but they will have a job marrying me off to someone I don't want." Anne also had precedent going for her. Her aunt, Princess Margaret, now 42, made the big break in 1960, when she wed Antony Armstrong-Jones, an untitled photographer. Since then, three of the Queen's cousins, Princess Alexandra, the Duke of Kent and Prince...
...Romance. Sadly for lovers of fairy tales, it turns out that the two men were not really competing for the spirited princess's hand. London gossip has it that Meade was never a suitor but acted as a cover for Phillips. Anne, who inherits her father's fondness for playing games with the press, contributed to the confusion. As recently as March, Anne royally fibbed that there was no romance between her and the strapping soldier. In fact, they actually became engaged in mid-April; the official announcement was delayed until, according to protocol, Commonwealth leaders...
...marriage -a point that gave Britain's Communist daily an excuse for its lèse-majesté coverage of the engagement. While most of the British press ran streams of type (530 column inches in the Daily Express), the London Morning Star carried two curt sentences: "Princess Anne will get a ?20,000 rise, to ?35,000 a year [$87,500], when her marriage to Lieut. Mark Phillips, announced yesterday, takes place. It has not been decided where they will live...
...with a salute from his stars. The audience that packed the Metropolitan Opera House at up to $100 a ticket in tribute to the 85-year-old Russian immigrant was stellar too. In the crowd: Vanderbilts, Astors, Roosevelts, Whitneys, Cristina Ford, Jackie and Aristotle Onassis, and the Prince and Princess Alfonso de Borbon of Spain. A visitor to Hurok's office before the gala remarked that it was too bad that all the profits were going to the arts research library in Lincoln Center instead of to Sol himself. "But you can't take it with...