Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pain & Paralysis. This beglamoured life ended dramatically on June 8, 1956. With Norwegian Ambassador Rolf Andvord and her good friends Domenica Walter, Jean Lacaze and Dr. Maurice Lacour, Maggie attended a gala opera performance in honor of visiting King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Her close relationship with Domenica and Jean had business as well as social overtones: through her own Newmont Mining Corp., Maggie owned nearly half the stock in Domenica's and Jean's rich Zellidja mines. There were rumors that, dissatisfied with the long-term plans of the Zellidja management, she was planning...
...When Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
...cheering crowds in India, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has appeared every inch the genial aristocrat, exactly the sort of nobleman to be married to Britain's gracious Queen Elizabeth. But to the newsmen and photographers scrambling to cover his world-girdling tour of the British Commonwealth, Prince Philip was a relentless foeman...
...when the sensational London Sunday Pictorial ran a spicy series by the duke's ex-valet. It was aggravated this year when the Pictorial had to be stopped by court order (obtained by the royal family) from completing an intimate series by the ex-superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. Many Fleet Street newspapermen, without blaming the royal family for irritation at peephole journalists, nonetheless blame Buckingham Palace for doing nothing to encourage legitimate coverage. Any royal tour is bound to have press coverage, and since the primary object is to get good public relations...
...Columnist Edwards was as sassy as she could be for Lord Beaverbrook's bustling Daily Express (circ. 4,084,603). Her weekly 8-in. column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once ran a picture showing the rumpled derriere of the Queen's gown, cattily commented that wrinkleproof fabric evidently was unknown at Buckingham Palace. Drawn by Anne's sharp, sure feline touch, women formed fully 46% of the Daily Express' readership...