Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Travel-weary but pleased. Queen Elizabeth II last week came to the end of her six-week Canadian tour, at the historic British fortress of Halifax. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and 18 Cabinet members were on hand to see her off in a whirl of meetings, state banquets and one final piece of business: the appointment of a new Governor General to succeed scholarly Vincent Massey, 72, who retires this fall after 7½ years of service...
That task accomplished, the Queen, who in 15,000 miles of travels had seen and been seen by more Canadians than any. other reigning sovereign in history, gave gracious thanks for her welcome and flew home across the Atlantic by Comet jet. Her long, sometimes too arduous tour was more a personal success than a triumph of monarchy in highly independent, increasingly nationalistic Canada. Elizabeth's visit, both in her formal role, officiating with President Eisenhower at the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the informal journeys that followed, was a symbol of the Commonwealth to which Canada...
...wife of British Historian-Diplomat Harold Nicolson) has skillfully woven Mademoiselle's figure, with her private ardors and ironies, into the larger tapestry of the history, manners, and morals of Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by the manners than the morals. The Queen's own gentleman-in-waiting thought nothing of dropping the royal hand for a moment "pour alter pisser contre la tapis-serie." Garbage filled the rank Parisian streets, but the stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed and perfumed male of the era might choose...
...Indian girl, a trio of tarts, and two wing-hatted nuns danced onstage to gawk at the bearskinned sentries. A school girl got her head stuck between a sentry's legs. In the ballet's climax, the cast crowded about the palace gates to salute the Queen with ringing, patriotic cheers...
...Interviewer Joyce Davidson, guesting on NBC's Today, provoked impassioned cries for her blonde scalp by remarking that "like most Canadians, I am indifferent to the visit of the Queen...