Word: queene
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...royalty, Prime Minister Lester Pearson last week made a series of appointments aimed at strengthening Canada's top echelon of officials. First, he reached among his former political rivals for a new Governor General to succeed Georges Philias Vanier, who died last month. His choice to represent the Queen in Canada is Daniel Roland Michener, 66, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and onetime Speaker of the House whose latest post has been that of Canada's High Commissioner (ambassador) to India. As Governor General, mustachioed Michener will provide a fitting bipartisan representation in Canada's highest...
Divorced. The Earl of Harewood, 44, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, and 18th in line of succession to the British throne; by the Countess of Harewood, 39; on uncontested charges of adultery with Patricia Tuckwell, 38, Australian-born onetime model who bore him a son in 1964; after 17 years of marriage, three children; in London...
Bertie from the godless guardians and placed him in care of his grandmother, Lady Russell, who had been a lady in waiting to Queen Victoria and was a Scotch Presbyterian of dour principles. Bertie was judged too sickly for school (actually he was strong as a horse) and was sketchily educated at home by tutors or a slightly dotty aunt. He had no way of knowing until much later that he was one of the cleverest little boys who ever lived...
...sooner had the Theater Atlanta Repertory Company started its run of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra than its Queen of the Nile, Actress Kathryn Loder, took a spill onstage and broke her hand. Her doctors ordered her out of the show, and T.A. Director Jay Broad feared he might have to close the run in his new $1,000,000 house. Then he learned that Negro Actress Diana Sands, 32, was playing Lady Macbeth at nearby Spelman College. Would she fill in? Delighted, said Diana. After four days of rehearsals, she opened as Cleopatra, playing to a near-capacity...
...Beaconsfield and moved to the House of Lords. "I am dead," said Dizzy, "dead but in the Elysian fields." The irreverence reached right to the brink of the grave. All his life he had captivated older women; he married and lived happily with one twelve years his senior. Queen Victoria, grieving over her lost Prince Albert, was his last and greatest spiritual conquest. As Disraeli lay dying at 76, a courier from the Queen asked if she could come visit him. "It is better not," he said. "She would only ask me to take a message to Albert...