Word: queen
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Though her visit was billed as unofficial (and the U.S. was thus spared the need of according full honors), Queen Frederika had a serious purpose for her presence. Greece is soon to start operating its first nuclear reactor, and with King Paul, Frederika has become a student of nuclear physics. "For my part," she told a TIME reporter last week, "although I know that radioactive isotopes and such are of great medical benefit, I am really most interested in theoretical physics. You have to learn something about it to have this interest. But now that I do-I want...
...welcome Heuss, official Britain rolled out its full panoply of protocol, pomp and pageantry. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret, Harold Macmillan and his Cabinet and Britain's military service chiefs were waiting, with smiles and handshakes, on a red carpet in London's grimy Victoria Station. Artillery in Hyde Park thundered in salute. The scarlet-coated band of the Scots Guards even broke into Deutschland über Alles. Headlined London's tabloid Daily Sketch: O.K., FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE...
Royal Ancestry. But "Fritz" was not out yet. As Heuss and the Queen rode at a horse's pace in an open coach from the station to Buckingham Palace, the crowds stood silent except for an occasional shout, mostly in German. There was none of the hostility shown Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but Londoners were at best curious, and at worst cold...
...state banquet at the palace, the Queen declared forthrightly: "Nothing can ever erase from the record certain deeds and events perpetrated in Europe within our memory. But their most important significance today is as a warning to the whole world of what can happen when democracy breaks down." After getting past this sticky need to separate Heuss from the Nazis, the Queen went on to recall her own and her husband's German ancestry...
...GERMAN BLOOD, headlined Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express next morning, and Express readers took up the cry as the paper intended. Said one wire signed by three Londoners: "We are not particularly pleased to be reminded of the Queen's rather unfortunate ancestry...