Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the week Queen Elizabeth officially sought the advice of her Cabinet ministers on her sister's wish to marry. Most of the ministers were against advising her one way or the other, but at least one came out stoutly against the marriage. He was Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, 62, whose family have scolded and guided the sovereigns of England since Elizabeth...
...influence, and he is pressing it to the full. If the Cabinet came out for amending the Royal Marriage Act to ease the way for Margaret to marry a commoner and a divorced man, Salisbury warned, he would quit the Cabinet. His reasoning was simple and without malice: the Queen heads the Church of England, and Margaret, as a member of her family and a potential successor to her throne, must abide by the church's rules. Eden, who is himself divorced and remarried (to Winston Churchill's niece, in a civil ceremony), had hoped to remain neutral...
Nonetheless, Kirkland's words were known to reflect the views of 68-year-old Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, and, next to Queen Elizabeth herself, the highest official in the Anglican hierarchy. Like the Queen, the Archbishop avoided speaking his mind in public. But he is a close, old friend of the young Princess, and he was her greatest comforter at the time of her father's death...
Russell is, for a change, neither proving nor disproving anything, except, perhaps, that the Queen of Sheba had nightmares equal to those of any modern chief of state. In this collection of thirteen essays an fables, Russell merely twists his practised knife in ancient and modern bodies of superstition, myth, and foible...
...describes the nightmares of such varied and notable personalities as the Queen of Sheba, the Shakespearean expurgator Bowdler, Stalin, Dean Acheson, a modern psychoanalyst, a metaphysician, and an existentialist. Bowdler, or example, dreams that his wife reads a copy of the original Shakespeare, goes mad out of remorse for her dread deed, and is carried off to the asylum, shouting Shakespearean obscenities to the neighbors as the departs...