Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finding the object, however, proved to be more difficult. Working at night for secrecy, Thomas investigated Kimbolton Castle in Cambridgeshire, 21 miles north of Ampthill Park, where Henry's abandoned Queen died in 1536. The castle, now a girls' school, yielded nothing. Then Thomas took a shrewd tack. He researched Williams' own background for links, figuring rightly that the author would have buried the pendant in a place he knew. Ultimately, however, success was due as much to luck as to deduction. Driving past Ampthill Park one afternoon, near a spot where Williams had once lived, Thomas...
...showers of sparks keep the production moving through more than two hours of miraculously complex family machinations. Henry, aging at 50 and increasingly anxious about England's future under his three bickering sona, wants to give everything to John, the youngest and least appealing of the brood. Eleanor, his Queen, who in youth divorced the King of France for a tempestuous marriage with Henry, has aged too and embittered; all she has left is determination to thwart Henry's choice, whatever desire of his she can detect...
...meeting of perhaps the two most photographed women in the world, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 20. Taylor was in London to perform in her Broadway hit, The Little Foxes. Diana turned up in the royal box of the Victoria Palace Theater to catch Queen Liz in action. At the end of the show, the Princess trooped backstage. "Thank you for a lovely performance," said Diana. When asked for a rundown of their chat, Taylor was uncharacteristically closemouthed. "I was more than thrilled to meet her," said Liz, "but I never discuss private conversations...
...There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold," Toddy sniffles as he contemplates being down and out in Paris, 1934. He has just lost his job in a gay nightclub, his lover has left him, and his new roommate, Victoria (Julie Andrews), is a singer with a voice that can shatter glass but not the indifference of booking agents...
Toddy, who is played with great good spirit by Robert Preston, speaks too soon. For the old queen is anything but an object of pity. Since his new pal looks so dapper in the suit she borrows from him after her clothes have been ruined in a rainstorm, he shrewdly conceives the idea of having her become a female female impersonator: in other words, a woman who plays a man playing women...