Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budding fashion plate who obviously has no use for longer hemlines is Princess Anne. Alighting from a car in Fiji, where the British royal family stopped on their world tour, minishifted Anne displayed a pair of legs that should never, never be Longuetted...
...Died. Princess Irina Youssoupoff, 74, widow of Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the assassin of Rasputin, and niece of Czar Nicholas II; of a heart attack; in Paris. A fragile beauty whose wedding to Youssoupoff in 1914 mirrored all the pomp and splendor of the Romanoff empire, Princess Irina was hundreds of miles away on the evening, two years later, when her husband poisoned, shot and bludgeoned to death the Mad Monk. Soon afterward the couple fled to England, where in 1934 Irina made world headlines by winning a $125,000 libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film Rasputin...
...Mahendra's son, Crown Prince Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 24. He will not only succeed his father some day as monarch but also, the Nepalese believe, as the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. The prince's bride, and also his second cousin, was Crown Princess Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana, 20, a member of the family that ruled...
...were two days of elaborate Vedic ceremonies. On the day of the wedding itself, Prince Birendra mounted a silver howdah atop an elephant at the Royal Palace, then led a two-mile procession through the capital. At a courtyard in the Palace of the Lion, the prince joined the princess in seven ceremonial circuits around an eternal flame. They then sat down on a simulated bed for a full night of outdoor chanting with Brahmin priests and more Vedic rituals. In one, the couple's feet were washed by every one of the bride's nearly 200 family...
...there will be other splashy weddings. Prince Birendra has two younger brothers, both of whom are expected to be betrothed to Princess Aishwarya's two younger sisters. The pairings make shrewd political sense. As 49-year-old King Mahendra figures it, with all of his children marrying into the same family, there is no chance of ambitious in-laws from another clan waging a struggle over the succession...