Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after his appearance at Claridge's, Michael was aboard the Queen Elizabeth, en route to New York. Before sailing he committed himself on another question. "Anne and I," said Michael, "hope to be married soon in Denmark." But even that plan presented complications. By week's end there was bad news for the hopeful young king and his Bourbon princess, who was staying with her mother in Paris. From Rome, Papal Secretary Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, the Vatican's expert on Soviet-dominated Europe, announced that Pope Pius had refused Roman Catholic Princess Anne permission to marry...
Professor Chafee sail for Europe yesterday on the Queen Elizabeth for the opening of the parley, on March 23. The meeting will probably cover such topics as press censorship and news flow across national boundaries...
...nationally known amateur from St. Paul, Minn. The record of her gay blades includes two summers of appearances in St. Paul's ice shows and dizzying twirls in more benefits and revues than she can name off-hand. Last winter she took a brief fling at monarchy as Queen of the snow and ice carnival at Carleton College, in, Northfield, Minn...
...items about "who was going to divorce whom, and who was going to have a baby, and approximately when." And he was fallible even there. With a scandalized look at the ethics of columnists, the Enquirer quoted him: "'The Monocle Set . ... doubt the recent rumor (that Queen Liz is enceinte). . . . We stole the rumor from a London correspondent for an American newsmag,* which is what comes from stealing news from amateurs...
...Terror there was nobody in the Assembly except Mirabeau who had the confidence of the people. He became a secret adviser of the king. It was then too late; Mirabeau's strength was gone, and his advice was not followed, or was accepted only in part. The queen, with "her superficial and malicious intelligence, which excelled in seizing on slight slips and ridiculing them," disregarded his warnings. Readers may feel that it would not have been so tragic had it merely cost her her life, but that with it went the dream of the Rights...