Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Gavam got back to Teheran last May, the Queen Mother sent him a large bouquet of roses. Commented one Teheran paper: "In some countries to send red roses means love, yellow roses are for jealousy, white roses are for death . . . Judging by the mixture the Queen Mother sent Gavam, the situation is confused...
...Boer War came, then the spot of bother of 1914-1918, then World War II. The Queen's domains were whittled away, but Campbell stirred neither drum or gun to save them. No one bothered him. Even at Victoria Barracks last week they still did not bother the old man (he was 80). In fact, he was a problem to modern, Socialist Britain-his records, of course, were lost. Someone suggested he go to Chelsea Royal Hospital, but it admits only veterans recommended for good conduct. "How," asked an official contemplating Campbell's case, "can you recommend good...
...Color in honor of the King's official birthday,* the War Office called off the show. A curt official announcement blamed the weather. But the crowds stared suspiciously at the bright sun. What was up? Rumors whipped round that King George was flat on his back, .that Queen Mary was dead, that Princess Elizabeth had had a miscarriage, or that somebody had planted a bomb...
George VI and Queen Elizabeth were in good shape, but by the skin of their teeth. On their way to the Derby they suddenly took a detour, after an ill wind had slammed down a tree on an auto ahead of their...
Strained Relations."Now, right enough, the police had made a dab at me in 1939, but I had got a whisper and had just time to sidestep. It was this way. The British King & Queen took it into their heads to visit the U.S. while I was still there, and the American police, having learned of the strained relations between our two houses on account of what happened to Hugh [an O'Donnell defeated by the British at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601], were anxious to have a word with me." Peadar sought...