Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, little Feisal posed for an official photograph, looking delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...
...Jesuit Gimmick. Heroine of the play is a guardian angel just released from the heroic job of keeping a movie queen out of hell. "Love was a game," she sings of her former charge. "Men were so tame/ Like Nashua she ran every race./Though in her prime She lost every time./ But she died in the state of grace...
...Ribot, the barrel-chested, four-year-old Italian wonder horse, unbeaten in his 13 previous starts, had his work cut out to put away the Queen's own High Veldt and win the $78,820 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, richest race on British turf. Once the runt of the stables of Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta, Ribot has now earned $195,000, and his short, ungainly frame looks so attractive to foreign horsemen that the marchese has received offers up to $1,428,000 for him, a world-record price for any race horse. But Ribot...
...ceremony at Moscow's airport as the Shah and his Queen left Russia was marked by unseasonable coolness...
...polo field at Windsor Great Park, the Duke of Edinburgh, a victim of a slipped cinch, took a tumble from his mount as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne watched. Back in the saddle again, Philip resumed the game, but his accident was interpreted by some as divine retribution: many English churchgoers have recently openly looked askance at the Duke's sporting on the Sabbath...