Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title will settle that argument, but it will not give Philip a place in the line of succession to the throne or change his protocol rank. As official "First Gentleman of the Realm," Philip takes his place immediately behind the Queen when she is with him, and leads the procession when he is her official representative. But as the most recently created royal duke, prince or not prince, he will continue to rank 30th in line of precedence (behind Britain's two archbishops, all the other members of the royal family and all Britain's dukes) at other...
Avenue Montaigne, entering by twos and threes. Their credentials are carefully checked, and they are assigned seats according to a rigid protocol based on the prestige of their publications or the extent of their purchases in the years before. This year the Duchess of Windsor came late and unexpected, had to settle for a seat on the staircase...
With rigorous attention to protocol, the strongman Presidents of Venezuela and Colombia met one afternoon last week on the long, narrow steel bridge over the borderline Taáchira River. Venezuela's General Marcos Peérez Jimeénez brought along his wife, his top ministers and a band of military chiefs; Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was backed up by his wife and a similar party...
...beginning of the meeting (as one observing newsman put it), "protocol controlled every wink and sneeze." Because neither President had legal permission to leave his own country, they shook hands over a carefully surveyed international boundary marker at mid-bridge. The presentations of wives and officials were made in a minuetlike ritual. Then the two chiefs retired to a little pavilion built at one side of the bridge, sat down, and talked...
...casually at ease as he chatted with Portuguese diplomats waiting to greet his wife. When the Queen's plane rolled to a stop, he climbed briskly aboard, entered Elizabeth's private compartment, and, less than two minutes later, appeared again at the cabin door at a protocol distance behind his poised and smiling wife. A few minutes later, after a round of formal smiles and handshakes, the royal couple, apparently unconscious of the peering eyes of the press and the world, entered their car and drove off in dignified silence to the yacht Britannia...