Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give some measure of hope to the 70,000 girls that are born each year in Greece, King Paul and his pert, social-minded Queen Frederika have worked out a new kind of welfare-state benefit: dowries for all. Urged on by the King and Queen, 132 citizens' committees all over Greece have conducted drives to raise money for a national dowry fund. Each time 1,000 drachmas ($33.33) is added to the collection, a bank book is issued in the name of some future bride, selected at the age of one to three years by the committee from...
Last week, as the number of dowries reached 11,500, the King and Queen themselves were busily handing them out in person at the end of a two-month tour covering 50 towns and villages. "The royal couple," said one grateful Greek, "have changed the birth of a girl from a curse to a hope...
...first week as Canada's new Tory Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker moved on a grand stage. Only two days after he was sworn into office, Diefenbaker flew to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. He had an audience with the Queen, and dinner at Windsor Castle; he spent a weekend at Chequers, and got a request from Madame Tussaud's that he sit for a wax statue. Prime Minister Diefenbaker flashed a happy grin, confided to a friend: "I'm enjoying...
Bowling down to Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth a few hours after he had exhorted Britain's Automobile Association that "anything is worth trying to reduce Britain's horrible casualty figure," Prince Philip tried to stop his elegant green Lagonda convertible when a Morris slowed for a turn, failed to brake fast enough, clonked into the tiny car. The Morris pilot hopped out in a huff, "thinking 'Some stupid clod's hit me,' " melted immediately when Philip cheerfully took the blame. Damage to Queen, Prince and commoner: none. To Philip's prestige as president...
Sylvia Short, as Queen Isabella, sometime object of a faded emotion, gave one of the show's finest performances in her wistful role--despite her phony French accent. The latter, shared by Peter Donat in his interpretation of Piers Gaveston, is more forgiveable because it is called for in Treece's stage directions. But it is as historically anachronistic as it was poorly done...