Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was all, but it marked the first time that Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, 70, had been invited to a royal function in the 30 years since the Duke, as Edward VIII, had abdicated his throne to marry the nonroyal divorcee. The ceremony over, the Queen left for the Derby at Epsom, and the Windsors flew home-to Paris...
...purely a private family ceremony in memory of Her Majesty my mother," the Duke of Windsor, 72, had explained politely to reporters. Yes and no. As 300 Londoners looked on along the Mall outside Marlborough House, Queen Elizabeth pulled a golden tassel drawing back the curtains over a small plaque on the garden wall: "Queen Mary, 1867-1953." Then she stood on the sidewalk for a few moments chatting with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Earl of Harewood...
Arriving in Manhattan to commence a three-week trip through the U.S. and Canada, Thailand's King Bhumibol, 39, and his lustrous Queen Sirikit, 34, paid a first call at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the museum's trustees and Time Inc. jointly sponsored a reception attended by some 700 members of New York's business, publishing and art communities. By happy coincidence, the museum was exhibiting a 5,000-year panorama of royal objets d'art and artifacts entitled "In the Presence of Kings," to which the young monarch presented an exquisite 18th century...
...triumphant arrival home, Britain's Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 65, was hurried to Plymouth's Royal Naval Hospital with a hemorrhage of an unsuspected duodenal ulcer. With Sir Francis berthed for as long as a month, this week's two superceremonies-his formal knighting by the Queen with Sir Francis Drake's sword, and his pandemonious reception by the City of London-have been postponed until he is shipshape again...
...City Hall anyway," cried New York's Mayor John Lindsay, 45, by way of explaining his presence at opening-day rites of the 14th annual New York-Is-a-Summer-Festival festival. Bubbly high spot of the ceremony was to be the christening of the good ship Festival Queen, a commercial sightseeing barge borrowed for the day. On hand to do the honors was Nancy Davison, 24, a somewhat younger, prettier festival queen. She swung the champagne. Bonk! Nothing happened. Thrice more she smote to no avail until the kindly Mayor said, "Give me that please." Whereupon he swung...