Word: queene
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DIED. Princess Anne of Denmark, 62, British-born wife of Prince George and cousin of England's Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in London. Born Anne Bowes-Lyon, she married Prince George, the Danish military attaché in London and a distant cousin of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, in 1950, after the dissolution of her marriage to Lord Anson. She and Anson had a daughter and a son, Photographer Patrick Lichfield...
...claims. Summa has even been able to unload the Spruce Goose without having to break it in pieces, as once threatened. This week the plane will be given to the Aero Club of Southern California, which will put it on display in Long Beach next to the once glamorous Queen Mary ocean liner...
...Julia and Marietta. Italian bards had little interest in the violence and gore that sometimes make for such grimm reading. When the good characters are afflicted, they feel sadness but not pain; the villains are punished or dispatched at the end with commendable speed. In The Marriage of a Queen and a Bandit, a pesky ex-husband is discovered hiding in the bedroom of his former wife and her new mate: "At once the king awakened, sounded the trumpet he wore around his neck night and day, as is customary with kings, and the soldiers came running from all directions...
Thirty years ago, a U.S. Senator rose in the chamber to denounce the "illicit affair" between a "popular but pregnant Hollywood movie queen" and a "love pirate." The pirate was the brilliant Italian director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan). The gravid queen was, of course, Ingrid Bergman, who had arrived in Hollywood from Sweden in 1939, a hefty 5 ft. 8 in. of raw material crying out for diet, plucked eyebrows and capped teeth...
...life between her children in Rome (Rossellini got custody), a new husband in France and her revived career. If they sometimes had little else to redeem them, the plays and movies she starred in were illuminated by her stately, ageless presence. "Too bad she isn't the queen of some country," an adoring Goldie Hawn reflected...