Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Queen, said the young English nobleman firmly, presents to the public the personality of "a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team, a prefect, and a recent candidate for confirmation"; her manner is that of a debutante, her speaking style is "a pain in the neck"; her court is outmoded; and those who surround her "are almost without exception of the 'tweedy' sort...
...those who took the trouble to look beyond the headlines into the body of Lord Altrincham's article, the point was clear enough and one that has troubled the thoughts of many another Briton now recovered from the first, fine rapture of enjoying a pretty, well-mannered new Queen: What and where are a monarch's responsibilities in a democratic world? "When the Queen," wrote Altrincham, "has lost the bloom of youth, her reputation will depend far more than it does now upon her personality. She will have to say things which people can remember, and do things...
Needless Errors. "It says much for the Queen that she has not been incapacitated for her job by her woefully inadequate training. But will she have the wisdom to give her children an education very different from her own? Will she above all see to it that Prince Charles is equipped with all the knowledge he can absorb without injury to his health, and that he mixes during his formative years with children who will one day be bus drivers, dockers, engineers, etc.-not merely with future landowners...
...that this present from the Bourbon monarchs to the people of Paris ended in Bourbon tragedy. Within three decades its name had changed from Place Louis XV to Place de la Revolution. In it was set the guillotine that chopped off the heads of both Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie Antoinette...
Back on Her Feet. One afternoon last week, to a blare of trumpets from the Royal Horse Guards, Queen Mother Elizabeth stepped through a new oak door in an old stone doorway and looked about her at the reborn All Hallows, The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cullum Welch, was on hand to greet her, and the Bishop of London, Dr. Henry Montgomery Campbell. Thirty of the Winant Volunteers and All Hallows' Assistant Curate John Bassett Frederick, of Cheshire, Conn., stood by while Vicar Clayton escorted the Queen Mother to a chair made from the pulpit door...