Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trumpets from the scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon of Her Majesty's Body Guard followed by the Queen's Bodyguard in scarlet Tudor tunics. To a final blast from the silver trumpets, Queen Elizabeth herself entered in gold coat and matching feathered toque...
NONFICTION 1. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (2) 2. Markings, Hammarskjold (1) 3. The Founding Father, Whalen (5) 4. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (3) 5. Queen Victoria, Longford (4) 6. The Italians, Barzini (7) 7. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg (6) 8. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre 9. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (9) 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...Napoleon Bonaparte It was the sort of pomp and circumstance that Britons do so awfully well. In Whitehall's Inigo Jones Banqueting Hall, Queen Elizabeth II last week dined formally with 250 guests off the regimental silver of the 35 regiments that, with Marshal Blücher's Prussians, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Afterward Defense Minister Denis Healey and the ambassadors of The Netherlands, Belgium and West Germany watched 1,200 soldiers from those regiments march under floodlights...
...Queen Victoria, Longford...
...Presley, 30, firmly in the No. 1 spot on London's Hit Parade with what the trade calls a ."religiose"-Crying in the Chapel. And were the Beatles crying any more than usual down there in 24th place with Ticket to Ride? No, no, no. For when the Queen's annual birthday honors list came out, there they were, among the 1,800 names: Ringo Starr, 24, John Lennon, 24, Paul McCartney, 22, and George Harrison, 22, all appointed members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, thus entitled to put M.B.E. after their names...