Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rainier and his bride are extremely fortunate that anyone came as representatives of Great Britain and the U.S., and Queen Elizabeth's gift should be accepted gracefully...
TIME implies that our Queen snubbed Rainier and his bride. But what could the Queen do? She had to frown on her sister's proposed morganatic marriage a short time...
...ancient coronation ceremonies began in the courtyard of the ornate royal Palace of the Monkey God, the slight young King, in white jodhpurs and tunic, and his young Queen Devi, in a bright red sari, strolled casually in to take their places, cross-legged and barefoot, on white cushions placed before the throne...
...Fanny White, whom he found in a brothel, earned the enmity of Editor James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. Bennett called him "Aunfit" for a diplomatic post, so Sickles devised a subtle revenge: when he got to London, he presented his favorite tart of the moment to Queen Victoria as "Miss Bennett...
...went on to be Minister to Spain by appointment of President Grant. In Madrid he tried to cozen the Spanish out of Cuba without a war and earned the derisive title, "Yankee King of Spain'' by his trips to Paris to make love to the deposed Spanish Queen Isabella...