Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most romantic gesture of the 20th century. Next week the duke and his duchess will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their marriage, by every evidence still as devoted to each other as on the June day when they were wed in a friend's chateau in France. Queen Elizabeth has invited them to Marlborough House next month to attend the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to Edward's mother, Queen Mary -the first official recognition ever extended the duchess by Buckingham Palace. Ironically, Queen Mary was unforgiving all her life of the woman she described as "an adventuress...
...Tinos, leronymos was ordained a deacon in 1932, earned scholarships to theological schools in England and Germany. He is an expert in canon law, with 90 published works to his credit, has a doctorate in divinity from the University of Athens. After World War II, he came to Queen Frederika's attention by leading a movement to repatriate Greek children who had been kidnaped by Communist guerrillas. In 1949, the royal family named him palace chaplain...
Jampacked G.l.s. Designed as a tandem team for providing weekly passenger service across the North Atlantic, the Queens were the culmination of a dream born in 1840 when Samuel Cunard's Britannia became the first regularly scheduled transatlantic liner. At the time that the 80,000-ton Queen Mary made her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in May 1936, only the French Line's Normandie could rival her for size and speed.* Within six months, work was underway on her even bigger sister ship, the 83,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, whose maiden trip to New York...
Then war's end freed the Queens to do the job they were meant for: ferrying pampered travelers in elegant surroundings. As time passed, the ships' 1930s-style trappings made them seem dowdy to travelers with new ideas about opulence. Hurt by jet-age airline competition, the Queens also lost potential passengers to sleeker French and Italian ocean liners. By 1961 the ships were losing money, and Cunard began putting them on winter cruises in an effort to make ends meet. Last year alone, the line spent $4,200,000 remodeling the Queen Elizabeth...
...Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, Sir Basil said he would consider selling them to another line so long as they did not compete with Cunard, also mentioned proposals for mooring the Queen Mary as an offshore "hotel" at Gibraltar or Los Angeles. Otherwise, the ships figure to be worth $1,800,000 each as scrap...