Word: princess
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...speck in the Lesser Antilles, earns 70% of its $12 million export revenues from the serviceable fruit, and it has replaced Queen Elizabeth II as head of state with a ceremonial President. Nonetheless, the Queen's younger sister, a newly thinned-down Princess Margaret, presided over the independence ceremonies that made Dominica the Western Hemisphere's 30th sovereign state. As the Union Jack was hauled down in Windsor Cricket Park, it was replaced by the country's sassy new multicolored flag emblazoned with a green Sisserou parrot, the national bird...
...became a publicist and international socialite; in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Scion of a wealthy White Russian family and husband of Czar Alexander II's daughter, the Oxford-educated Obolensky fled his native country after battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. The tall, mustachioed aristocrat subsequently divorced Princess Catherine, married the daughter of American Financier John Jacob Astor, settled in the U.S. and worked with his brother-in-law, the real estate entrepreneur Vincent Astor. During World War II, Obolensky at 53 became the U.S. Army's oldest paratrooper and earned the rank of colonel. He started...
...Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. "I rather enjoy being called Your Majesty all day," says Sellers. He is especially pleased at getting the royal treatment from his real-life wife, Lynne Frederick, 24, who co-stars in the film as the king's betrothed, Princess Flavia. So enamored is Sellers of his new cinematic self, a role made memorable by Ronald Colman in 1937, that should the imaginary kingdom of Ruritania ever materialize, he would be happy to take the job of king permanently. Says Sellers: "It's tax free...
Uncle Tony isn't married to Aunt Meg any more, but Princess Anne still rang him up to do some snaps. So Lord Snowdon traveled to the 1,200-acre Gloucestershire estate where Anne lives with Husband Mark Phillips. The resulting portraits of the Phillipses and their son Peter so pleased Anne that she picked 20 poses for her official 28th-birthday portraits. Lord Snowdon does not believe in having a readily identifiable technique, because, he says, "that would limit me to a recognizable style." Recognizable subjects, however, are obviously desirable...
...last leg of a honeymoon that commenced in Tahiti, Princess Caroline of Monaco and Philippe Junot strolled on the Ocean City, N.J., beach like a couple of locals. Joining them at the surfside home of Caroline's maternal grandma, Margaret Kelly, was Princess Grace. Instead of a little Saturday night fever at a neighborhood disco, Caroline and Philippe opted for a Gay Jitterbug. The horse, that is, whose jockey, Steve Cauthen, was presented the winner's cup by the newlyweds at the nearby Atlantic City race track...