Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says. "I can't get out what I hear in my head. What comes out is mellow and soft; yet what I try to achieve is an 'edge' to my voice." To her avid public in Britain, Europe and Australia (which includes Britain's Princess Margaret), a more apt description can be found on the working title of Cleo's newest album, which she was recording last week: I Am a Song...
After Cavalry Lieut. Mark Phillips spent two successive weekends as a guest of Britain's Princess Anne at Sandringham House, London gossips were atwitter at the prospects of the first British royal wedding in more than a decade. The twitter grew louder when the lieutenant, sailing off for a two-year tour of duty in Germany, bade a warm dockside farewell to the Princess in full view of stevedores, soldiers and security guards. "They were just like any other couple saying goodbye to each other," said a guard. "They were two nice little kisses." But to talk...
...Lehzen revealed to her that one day she would be Queen. But life, meanwhile, was cruelly tedious. "I am very fond of pleasant society," she complained when 16, "and we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace. I longed sadly for some gaiety." The princess was a creature of exuberant vitality. As a diarist, for example, she tried to practice total recall, scribbling and underlining 2,000 words a day. Her journal eventually filled 122 volumes, an unparalleled historical document that, probably for reasons of Victorian prudery, was mostly destroyed by her daughter Princess Beatrice...
Queen Elizabeth, among other things, is patroness of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, so a number of her subjects found it shocking that Princess Anne went out fox hunting three times while visiting the Yorkshire digs of her new beau, Lieut. Mark Phillips of the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards. Declared the League Against Cruel Sports: "Animal lovers are appalled that the princess appears to be able to do no better with her leisure time than to help beat the daylights out of foxes." From the RSPCA, one militant group demanded that the Queen...
...lined up on the shelves, all seven of them borrowed from Widener Library and long over-due. Except for Summer Knowledge, the poems, these are first editions, none of which have ever been reissued. The stories, the verse play Shenandoah, the prose poems and sonnets in Vaudeville for a Princess (a copy of which I passed up in a Washington D.C. antiquarian dealder's shop because it was too expensive), the recent Selected Essays, and Genesis that undiscovered long poem (two hundred pages in all), rival to Notebook, Patterson, and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; as I studied them, it occured...