Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sober fact that powers diminish and that one cannot carry out one's task as one used to. And then there comes a moment when it's no longer justified to continue carrying out duties. I feel that the moment has come to resign as your Queen...
With those words, spoken in the informal, no-nonsense style that had endeared her to her subjects throughout a 31-year reign, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told a national television audience that she would abdicate on her 71st birthday this April 30. The occasion for the surprise announcement: the 42nd birthday last week of Crown Princess Beatrix, who will succeed her mother on the throne...
...enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic status granted by the British government, healing a breach opened with the Roman church by Henry VIII; his credentials as a gourmet have been accepted by such distinguished dinner guests as Donald Coggan, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Heim's homily to all his guests: Use only white wine in your recipes...
...television, an acerbic mystery-show host. But advancing age has banked some of the old fire, and at 80, Sir Alfred Hitchcock is likely to be, as Chaucer put it, "a verray parfit gentil knight." Hitchcock's name as Knight Commander of the British Empire appeared on Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honors list, the only show-biz personality knighted this year. Fittingly, he received formal notification of the honor at a ceremony in the commissary at Universal City Studios. Why, Hitchcock was asked, had it taken so long for Britain to honor such...
...frolics at the maison of one Daisy Newman, the cash-strapped Englishmen cooked up a seemingly impossible scheme to spirit the gems to the Continent. There they were disassembled and recut. Another footnote: some of the stones could have been unwittingly reacquired by the royal family. Queen Elizabeth often wears a magnificent brooch containing at least a dozen white Brazilian diamonds that might once have belonged to her great-grandpa...