Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...papers, for the next day, at the Bonn city hall, she was positively beaming. When she laid a wreath on the nearby Beethoven monument, the crowd responded with loud cheers and chants of "Elizabet, Eliz-a-bet." That night, after entertaining 88 dignitaries at dinner atop the Petersberg, the Queen and her guests stepped onto the terrace to watch "The Rhine in Flames," a dramatic fireworks display that covered the river halfway to Coblenz, 30 miles away...
Honeymoon Route. After taking leave of President Lübke and Chancellor Erhard, the royal couple journeyed up the Rhine past the famous rock of the Lorelei (the same route Victoria and Albert took on their honeymoon) and dined near Darmstadt with Prince Ludwig of Hesse and Rhine-the Queen's distant cousin and Philip's brother-in-law-in his 18th century hunting castle. It was in Bavaria, home of Germany's most unreconstructed royalists, that their warmest welcome awaited them. In Munich, schools were dismissed; the streets were lined by 8 a.m., two hours before...
...Both are great-great-grandchildren of Britain's Queen Victoria, herself a descendant of Britain's Hanoverian kings, and Germany's Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and they have an estimated 400 royal relatives in Germany. The name of the British royal house was changed in 1917 by George V, Elizabeth's grandfather, from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (whereupon Kaiser Wilhelm II, George's first cousin, gleefully called for a performance of The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). Philip is a Mountbatten, a name also Anglicized in 1917 from Battenberg...
Blimpish Bark. Last week the Union debated the same resolution (now, of course, "for Queen and Country"), and the storm was almost as violent. The man responsible was Tariq Ali, 21, a publicity-happy Pakistani studying at Oxford's Exeter College, who as president of the Union selects the topic of its weekly debates. His choice won him threats from Britain's fledgling Ku Klux Klan ("Watch out, you dirty wog"), four television appearances (worth $56), and 18 newspaper interviews. Letters poured in to editors, who responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise...
Only one speaker made what could be described as sense. Guest Reginald Maudling, the Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary, argued in favor of standing by Britain and her allies, because "an individual cannot exist outside the complex of rights and duties that bind us all together. By fighting for Queen and country we fight for mankind." To his great astonishment, Maudling received a huge ovation, and the students defeated the resolution by a vote...