Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britishers have hungered for American musicals since their first taste of Oklahomal and Annie Get Your Gun. Last month the latest in a long string opened and the critics, at least, seem to have gotten their fill. The Pajama Game, awaited because the Queen Mother had singled it out in New York, collected pans and mild jeers. Most reviewers found it coarse, loud, and unfunny. They especially deplored the enthusiasm of the audience and the seven curtain calls...
Within the royal family itself, Margaret's brother-in-law, Prince Philip-himself a newcomer to the ruling family-threw his influence against the marriage and urged his wife, the Queen, to oppose...
...time of anxiety and disciplined waiting was fast drawing to a close. Princess Margaret went off to Windsor to spend a weekend with her sister the Queen. There the decision might well be made. Though many were involved in its making, it was, in the end, Princess Margaret's decision to make. With the House of Commons returning and the public clamoring for news one way or the other, it could hardly be delayed much longer. "There really seems no reason," snapped the arch-Conservative Daily Telegraph in a moment of impatience last week, "why the facts should...
...government was forced to recognize that they had made a mistake. Under new Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, agreements were worked out which changed the Kabaka from an absolute to a constitutional (and therefore more manageable) monarch, and King Freddie agreed to swear renewed loyalty and obedience to the Queen. But Freddie got more than he gave. The British reshaped the protectorate's Legislative Council to include, for the first time, more Africans than whites. They promised not to press the East African Federation. They gave Buganda control over its own natural resources, schools and local government. Africans were...
...philosophy to become a medical missionary in French Equatorial Africa, rolled off to London. Forgoing fancy hotels in favor of staying with a longtime Alsatian friend who runs a teashop, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Schweitzer one day drew on a shabby, dark overcoat, headed for Buckingham Palace. There Queen Elizabeth II invested him with the insigne of the exclusive (24 members) Order of Merit. As a non-Briton, Dr. Schweitzer became the order's second living honorary member (the other: Dwight D. Eisenhower...