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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...
...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...
Belief & Practice The relations between church and state in Poland are distilled in an anecdote, current on the Continent, about the visit of Queen Mother Elisabeth of the Belgians to Warsaw last year, before the cleavage between Russian and Polish Communism became official. When the Foreign Office protocol officer assigned to the Queen accompanied her to Roman Catholic services on Sunday, she asked him if he was a Catholic. "Believing, Your Majesty, but not practicing," he answered with some embarrassment...
Main features to break the monotony are glass corridors and a three-story, sheet-glass grand entrance for protocol occasions. The roof will be reinforced for helicopter landing; the basement will house an 800-car garage. Inside, the building freezes the State Department's pyramidal hierarchy in concrete, with the Secretary's office, surrounded by his immediate aides on the seventh floor, lesser departments pushed lower and lower toward the first. Windows are rationed on prestige basis. To pump around the lifeblood of memorandums there are miles of pneumatic tubing...