Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, the Shah moped, according to courtiers. He had slept little for weeks. Four times he changed the wording of the announcement until it almost seemed as if it were she who was divorcing him. The final announcement was as apologetic as a Shah can be: "The Queen, forgetting her personal feelings as opposed to the nation's good, has made the decision . . . His Imperial Majesty, expressing his utmost regret, has renounced his personal feelings and with regard to the high interests of the nation has decided to end his marriage with Queen Soraya...
...father, the Iranian Ambassador to West Germany, childless Soraya said she was prepared to "sacrifice my own happiness" because the Shah "considers it necessary that the constitutional monarchy be perpetuated through succession to the throne in a direct line of sons from generation to generation." As consolation, ex-Queen Soraya gets a $67,000 settlement, an annual allowance of reportedly $48,000 until she remarries, permanent possession of several million dollars' worth of jewelry bought for her by the Shah, and the honorary title of "Princess" to express the Shah's "appreciation of her sacrifices...
...occasion was one to stir the hearts of all the Queen's loyal subjects in Bermuda, certainly the oldest and quite possibly the stuffiest colony in the whole glamorous, dwindling British Empire. A gleaming, 25-ship fleet of the British and Canadian navies lay at anchor in Hamilton Harbor, and no less a personage than the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Selkirk, flew in to observe the joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle...
Sputtering over their gin and tonics, flushed with rage to the color of their rum Cokes, the loyal colonials directed a flood of letters and telephone calls to the News's managing director, Seward Toddings. He was invited to "come to the Queen of Bermuda and bring a piece of rope." He was advised that he should be operating a furnace in hell instead of a newspaper. The House of Assembly hastily voted its hearty displeasure, profound indignation, and poignant regret over the editorial. The News, visibly stiffening its upper lip. explained at length that no offense was intended...
...Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and seven other main islands-8,000 sq. mi. of land and 3,000,000 people sprawled over 1,500 miles of Caribbean Sea-will hold its first election, choose the first West Indies Parliament, which will be opened April 22 with Princess Margaret representing Queen Elizabeth...