Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government offices and theaters all over Teheran last week, Queen Soraya's pictures were being taken down. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had reluctantly and sadly given in to his court advisers and ended their seven-year marriage by royal proclamation...
Slim, Westernized Soraya rushed to Switzerland, probably for a new series of "medical checkups." In Zurich, to conceal her purpose from the press, the green-eyed Queen bought 17 ski costumes, new skis, mufflers, mittens, jaunty knitted caps. But she went skiing only twice, to the dismay of the instructor placed wholly at her disposal. The Queen's German mother played solitaire all day, brooded and developed a facial tic. The Queen ate little, leaving her untouched trays out on the terrace to feed the birds. There were no 7 p.m. phone calls from the Shah, routine on previous...
...offer: unless Soraya agreed to the Shah's taking a second wife who might provide him with a son, he would divorce her. To the second-wife plan, Soraya reportedly gave an "angry and disgusted" no. If the second wife bore a son, she would inevitably become "the" Queen, and Soraya's standing would be sharply downgraded. As for divorce, Soraya shrugged resignedly: "Insh' Allah!" (As God wills...
...week's end the disconsolate Queen was trying to find amusement at roulette, the movies and television. Back in Teheran, some courtiers felt sure that, on reflection, Soraya would reconcile herself to sharing the Shah with another wife. Said one courtier: "Women have been known to change their minds...
...historian, as well as statesman, Churchill refuses to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire; he leaves his story just before the beginning of the end, with the death of Queen Victoria and the Boer War. It is astonishing to recall that Historian Churchill himself was once a prisoner of that war, almost 60 years ago. It helps to explain the confidence with which Churchill cuffs the past about into its proper Churchillian posture. When schools are better, his books will be required texts...