Word: queene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the limited progress that Saudi women have achieved is due to the work of Queen Iffat, the enlightened widow of King Faisal. Through her husband, Queen Iffat persuaded the government in 1960 to open an elementary school and later a secondary school for girls. There was great resistance to the idea, and in the beginning the King had to send police to keep the guardians of public morals from flogging the girls on their way to school...
...urbane, Princeton-educated Foreign Minister; Khalid, governor of the remote Asir region; and Bandar, a member of the military staff. A rising star among the sons is Turki, 34, who heads the country's intelligence directorate and recently lobbied in Washington for the F-15 sale. His mother, Queen Iffat, often says, with a tap on her forehead, "Turki has it here...
...years ago when Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret, wound up British royalty's longest romantic melodrama since the days of Edward VIII and Wallis ("the woman I love") Simpson by dropping her hopes of marrying Group Captain Peter Townsend. For all of his qualifications as a royal spouse, the dashing Battle of Britain hero had that fatal divorce in his background. So Britons were doubly cheered when, five years later at 29, the willful Meg finally made it to the altar, this time with Antony Armstrong-Jones, the arty son of a Welsh barrister and a promising...
...friends say, by 1974, when Margaret met Roddy Llewellyn, the pale, slight son of Lieut. Colonel Henry Llewellyn, a champion equestrian. After the two went on a much-publicized trip to the Caribbean island of Mustique in 1976, Margaret and Snowdon legally separated. Braving the ire of her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret continued to be seen in public with Roddy. When the pair spent their fourth holiday in Mustique last March, the British press headlined its disapproval while some Members of Parliament ominously asserted that the princess, by neglecting her public duties, was not earning...
...wishes to wed again, however, she could have problems, because the Church of England holds that a divorced person cannot remarry in the church while the former partner still lives. In her case, Margaret would have to ask permission of the Queen. Heading off untimely rumors, the royal family quickly let it be known that she has no marriage plans. Certainly, Margaret's remarriage would stir up antimonarchist sentiment in Britain. Immediately after the divorce announcement, Labor M.P. John Lee declared that the new development "must make more urgent the need for a review of the scale of royal...