Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shack at the end of a dirt road in Kent. A kettle steams on the little black stove. Amid such bleak surroundings, a scrawny, brown-eyed girl of 20 named Bridget Poole and a bedridden old woman smile and laugh together. "People think it's strange," says Elizabeth ("Queen") Allen, 83. "Such a young girl living with an old lady like me. But it seems perfect ly natural to us two. I think that's be cause love is there...
Because love is there, Queen Allen is also the most esoteric rage in sophisticated London. Bridget, an art student, found her three years ago, moved in to look after her, and last year, in hopes of raising money to supplement Queen's $37-a-month-old-age pension, invited some art teachers in to look at the small, neatly sewn quilt-pictures that the old lady had made. Within two months, London Dealer Crane Kalman was staging an exhibition of them...
Swans & Minarets. Artists and critics went overboard, comparing Queen's primitive tapestries to Klee, Picasso and the works of the Sienese quattrocento masters. Couture houses deluged her with scraps of silks and satins. Last month another 38 of her newer, brighter works went on display. Buyers snapped up all but ten that Kalman deliberately held back, and last week gallerygoers were still flocking to see the remaining few. Movie Actress Joanne Woodward became a Queen collector...
Born. To King Constantino of the Hellenes, 26, and Queen Anne-Marie, 20, his Danish-born wife of almost three years: their second child, first son, and first in line to the throne; in Tatoi Palace, 15 miles north of Athens...
...years, discriminating hostesses have seated their dinner guests at place settings crafted by Josiah Wedgwood Ltd. Catherine the Great of Russia had 952 pieces created for her summer palace near St. Petersburg; Queen Charlotte of Britain in 1765 was so enamored of her cream-colored earthenware that she commanded that it henceforth be called "the Queen's Ware." Only recently the Queen of Thailand placed her order for 400 pieces of powder blue Columbia...