Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen never bought anything new if something old could be repaired...
These boudoir details appeared last week in London's lip-smacking Sunday Pictorial under the byline of William Charles Ellis, 51, boss of a pub in Hertfordshire called the Plough and Dial but, until last November superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. His chatter was the latest in a series of tattle tales about royal family life to appear in London's popular press, ranging from the governess' gabble of the 1950 The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, to the more recent manly sacrifices of Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret's boy friend...
...last week it was evident that the Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, had had enough. A government official stalked into the Plough and Dial, handed Pubkeeper Ellis a royal injunction restraining him from publishing any further details about the royal family. The injunction pointed out that Ellis, on resigning, had allegedly given his word in writing-now required of all palace employees-that he would not publish any account of any incident or conversation that had come within his knowledge as a result of his royal employment...
Sharing the lot of her snow-plagued subjects. Queen Elizabeth II plowed her station wagon into a drift near the royal homestead at Sandringham. had to mush 200 yds. down the road with Prince Charles to find a phone, call for help...
Unbalanced Account. The papers played Mikoyan big. In Minneapolis the Tribune gave him as much space as it had devoted to Queen Elizabeth's 1957 visit to the U.S. In two days in Los Angeles he rated five to six columns daily from each of the four papers. When Detroit played Mikoyan's host, the News ran four front-page stories the same day, also turned over most of an inside page to detailed coverage of his stay. At week's end, the New York Times had yet to break the Mikoyan lease on Page...