Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the royal palace, septuagenarian Queen Mother Elisabeth approached a voting booth. For a moment she fumbled for her glasses in her handbag. Housemaid Juliette Deemes shouted: "Let Leopold come back and get a good kick in the backside!" From indignant bystanders rose countercries "Vive la Reine...
Though the housemaid plainly did not know it, she and the Queen Mother, who tends to patronize Belgium's Communists, probably saw eye to eye about the election's dominant issue. That issue was "the royal question": should the Queen Mother's exiled son, King Leopold III, be recalled to the throne from which he had been barred by Parliament...
...last week, he was getting ready to meet Queen Frederika at Athens' Hassani airport; the Queen was his special favorite-he had once referred to her, within King Paul's hearing, with a Greek phrase that can be translated as "quite a dish." Sophoulis, as he was dressing, said to his housekeeper: "When I was ill the Queen came to see me and brought me flowers. She is so sweet." A few minutes later, death, as it must to all men, came to Themistocles Sophoulis. King Paul asked Right-Winger Constantin Tsaldaris, now Foreign Minister, to succeed...
...placid Queen Anne got tired of bouncing in a carriage over Britain's heaths watching the gentlemen of her court chase deer. She established the Ascot racecourse so that she could sit in one place and watch the gentlemen race their horses around. In the 238 years since then (right up into last week), interesting occurrences have taken place at Ascot...
Their pleas had been scanned by a battery of palace secretaries, then checked and passed on to Ascot's Chief Steward, the Duke of Norfolk. The Duke's appointed list was sent to the Lord Chamberlain, then the King & Queen themselves gave the list a final scrutiny. People who had been successfully sued for divorce (not those who did the suing) were ruthlessly weeded out ("The only time I remember to hate my first wife is Ascot Week," gloomed one Londoner who was divorced 30 years...