Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Airport for a "mystery flight" to Mexico. Both the mystery and Romaine's marriage were soon unraveled. Two days later she was back home with a jigtime Juárez divorce from the blueblooded marquess, David Michael Mountbatten, 35, who is closely related to both Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. It was not, however, the marquess' royal family ties which troubled Romaine; she had charged earlier that he was even more closely related (through connecting hotel suites) to eye-filling Hungarian Cinemactress Eva (A Tale of Five Women) Bartok...
...already entered the horse for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, a one-and-a-half-mile race at Ascot in July, which would mix the Dancer with the best on the other side of the Atlantic. At Ascot, the Dancer would have to race clockwise instead of counterclockwise, on turf instead of dirt, on a course that runs irregularly instead of on a neat, flat oval. The last bend of Ascot's "old mile" rises more than 40 feet in three furlongs. To run the course's ups & downs, a horse must be able to accelerate, slow...
When General Charles George Gordon was speared to death at Khartoum in 1885, Queen Victoria "had difficulty in speaking." "How shall I ... express what I feel? . . . grief inexpressible!" she wrote the hero's sister. "Indeed, it has made me ill! My heart bleeds. . ." At the time-and for decades afterwards-Poet Arthur Rimbaud's brusquer comment, "Gordon est un idiot," represented the opinion of none but Poet Arthur Rimbaud...
...doing in the Sudan, why and by whom he was murdered. Still less could they say what there was in his character and acts to justify his becoming "the Stainless Knight of the century." Chinese Gordon answers these questions-but in such a way that if the old Queen were still alive, she would again experience difficulty in speaking...
Ride to Buckingham. Every whistle in London Harbor let loose a blast as she stepped ashore to the roar of a 41-gun salute, to be greeted by members of her own family and by government officials headed by beaming Sir Winston Churchill, who bowed to the Queen and her husband and shook hands gravely with the five-year-old Duke of Cornwall. It was the gallant old Prime Minister's second official greeting. By special invitation he had spent the previous night on the royal yacht, and scurried home in the morning to change from his Trinity House...