Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweep rescue, she was given a tumultuous reception. Small craft swarmed around her, fireboats threw spray, whistles blew. Thousands lined the waterfront to see her. City officials and Coast Guard brass came aboard to offer captain and crew their congratulations and a horde of reporters descended on the Sky Queen's passengers...
Four days after the Bermuda Sky Queen's forced landing, a Bristol land plane, operated by the French Compagnie des Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux, crashed in the Mediterranean on a flight from Marseille to Oran, Algeria. Forty-one died; two were rescued...
Friends rushed him to Bucharest, where he was thrown into jail and fished out again by "Cousin" Marie (the Queen of Rumania). A good many of his other cousins were driving taxis in those days, and Wilhelm became thoroughly disillusioned. When Ukrainian students in a Prague beer hall raised their glasses to him with the cry "Long Live Our Vasily," he only muttered: "The fools. . . ." By that time, the Ukraine was a Soviet Socialist Republic...
Britain's Princess Margaret Rose went off at 17 on her first official visit without her family (Queen Elizabeth stood at the palace entrance and waved goodbye). The Princess spent four days in Belfast, christened a ship, did fine, got back safe & sound...
Frederik of Norway made a fullblown, official state visit to Stockholm, thus giving royalty a fine excuse to dress to the teeth. One result: a news picture of Sweden's Gustaf and Denmark's Queen Ingrid which almost played its own champagne waltz...