Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the Paris house of Balmain made her wedding dress 17 years ago, Thailand's Queen Sirikit has been true to the designer in her fashion. The results have been dazzling for both. For six years, the Queen was listed among the world's ten best-dressed women. For his part, Balmain now picks up about $500,000 in annual business from Sirikit, a fact that rankles the house of Dior deeply. Last week, when Sirikit and King Bhumibol paid a state visit to the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah Diba, Dior dispatched...
...First Category." Thus began the greatest international exposition ever-the most spacious (6,000 acres), the costliest ($1 billion), the most imaginative and likely to be the most visited (some 10 million people are expected, twirling the turnstiles 35 million times). Since Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opened London's Great Exhibition in 1851, there have been dozens of "world's fairs." Some have left unforgettable landmarks (most notably, the Eiffel Tower from Paris' Exposition in 1889); some have simply left scars (the dilapidated architectural skeletons and sour aftertaste from the shill's paradise that...
...royalty goes, King Constantine and his Queen, who is about to present him with their second child, are popular with the mass of the people. Schooled by his father since childhood in the art of kingship, Constantine ascended the throne at 23. But, for all his youth, he has proved to be an able leader. Until last week at least, he had kept Greece on the path of constitutional monarchy in the face of heavy pressures from both ends of the political spectrum. He has kept the country closely tied to NATO. In recent years, Greece has become an associate...
...major target of the criticism is Queen Mother Frederika, who is blamed by the leftists?and by many others?for practically any action of the King's that they do not like. A tough, strong-willed woman who hotly defends royalty's every prerogative, she lives in retirement in a small villa at Psychiko outside Athens, frequently sees the King and his wife. Last winter, the criticism of the Queen Mother became so strong that in December the government introduced a special law in Parliament extending the lese majesty protection to all members of the royal family, including Frederika...
When Paul died in 1964 and Constantine graduated to the throne, many feared that the young King, who has said about his family that "we always used to work as a team," would be under the sway of the Queen Mother. But young Constantine soon showed that he had considerable toughness. He decided that his job was not for a puppet or a figurehead, and that he would have to reign as his family had before him?within the constitutional rights of the monarchy but with the strength and determination of a modern king. In fact, the Greek King...