Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first it had seemed so easy: let Margaret simply renounce her rights to the succession, and then she would be free. Her sister the Queen could settle a million or two pounds on her, say from the large estate left by Queen Mary. All Margaret would be out would be an unlikely chance to be Queen herself...
...family quarrel, they could not choose but hear. As the week wore on, the young Princess fulfilled her royal functions, well-armed in the impassive mask of dignity that is royalty's required uniform. In tiara and strapless pink and white gown, she helped her sister the Queen entertain the visiting President of Portugal by sitting through a performance of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, while a soprano sang to a forbidden lover, "Nothing in the world will ever part us." She snatched moments alone with Peter Townsend, whenever she could, at the homes of friends brave enough...
They Can't Win. "Britons today," cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre, "lack much of their old self-confidence. The recent advent of a young Queen, the talk of a new Elizabethan era, the dynamic character of a new self-confident Toryism, the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and of time by Four-Minute Miler Roger Bannister, are all factors which in the last few years have combined to bolster that waning confidence. Princess Margaret will start no revolution whatever she may do, but things are now so far advanced that...
Normality in Ermine. In this no longer gay romance, there were no villains, only victims. What modern Britons have come to demand and need most of all from their royal family is example. As the London Times put it last week: "The Queen has come to be the symbol ... in whom the people see their better selves ideally refleeted." But there was a corollary: in reflecting the national ideal, the monarchy must not set itself apart and away from the people it represents. The reflection must be that of normality clothed in ermine, and while the institution remains beyond reproach...
...modern respect for the monarch begins with the long reign of Queen Victoria. Her five daughters were brought up in a court peopled with carefully sifted members of a nobility as rigidly aloof as the sovereign herself, while Europe's courts abounded in eminently eligible princelings. In today's new era of democratized monarchy, the old Queen's great-great-granddaughter Margaret is blessed with no such protection...