Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, on her 18th birthday, was Margrethe Alexandrine Torhildur Ingrid, popularly known as Daisy, installed as Tronfolger-heir to the throne and some day Queen of Denmark, of the Wends and the Goths, Duchess of Slesvig, Holstein, Siormarn, Ditmarsken, Lauenburg and Oldenburg, and 50th sovereign of the oldest continuous kingdom in Europe...
Omen of Hope. Born just one week after the Nazis invaded her country and named after the great 14th century queen who extended her rule throughout Scandinavia, Margrethe's birth was regarded during the somber days of the occupation as an omen of brighter times to come. She grew into a shy but fun-loving little girl who, when asked what she liked best about the private school she was attending, blurted: "All that milling around and pushing and shoving in the corridors...
After dining with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, the place where Kaiser Wilhelm II visited his cousin George V in 1910, Adenauer presented an $11,900 check to the fund for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral, which German bombers destroyed in a 1940 raid. After three glowing days Adenauer returned to Germany, where this week he will play host to Russia's No. 2 man, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, whose visit to Bonn to sign the new Russia-West Germany trade pact is further evidence of West Germany's heightened prestige...
...late Queen Mary's 80th birthday in 1947, the BBC commissioned Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, by royal request, to do a radio drama called Three Blind Mice. Author Christie later expanded it into a stage play, The Mousetrap, thought it might run a couple of months at best. The day after The Mousetrap gave its 2,239th performance at London's Ambassadors' Theater, thus passing the musical Chu Chin Chow as the longest-running play in British stage history.* Producer Peter Saunders gave a hotel-jamming party for a few (1,000) friends, who cheered as Author...
...simple girl from a mining town in Idaho find happiness as a glamorous movie queen? To popeyed newspaper readers sated vicariously with this tired story line, the answer struck last week with the finality of a chord of doom: no -in the case of one queen in particular. The chord rumbled for Lana Turner, the Sweater Girl whose feckless pursuit of happiness became men's-room talk from Sunset Boulevard to Fleet Street, and for her shaken, 14-year-old daughter Cheryl, who stabbed Lana's paramour, Johnny Stompanato (TIME. April 14). Last week a coroner...