Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farewell. Next night, the Queen left, bound for Tobruk and a long-delayed reunion with her children, who had come by the new royal yacht Britannia to meet her. In Uganda, Sir Andrew Cohen breathed easier...
Ginger Snaps. For weeks as Elizabeth approached Uganda, Non-Smoker Sir Andrew had gone about distractedly nibbling ginger snaps and calling Whitehall at all hours of the day and night. One result of his agitated conferences with London was a last-minute cancellation of the Queen's visit to Kampala. But even with the ceremonial greetings restricted largely to his own well-guarded Government House at Entebbe, Sir Andrew felt far from secure. Last week, on Cohen's lawn, Acholi warriors and women, adorned with leopard skins, ostrich feathers and giraffe tails, pranced to the beat of jungle...
Next day the Queen was escorted under close guard to Jinja, to open the sluice gates of the new, 150,000-kw. Owen Falls hydroelectric plant. There again the security police prowled sharp-eyed through the crowd, but Elizabeth seemed completely unaware of any potential danger. The power failed and the mikes went dead during the Queen's speech. Later on, an elevator jammed, holding Elizabeth captive for some worrisome seconds. A British general's aide reported his revolver stolen. Except for these mishaps, all went well...
...nation's top society portraitist, he earns more than $50,000 a year painting such famous names and faces as Field Marshal Montgomery, the Duke of Edinburgh, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich. Last week Gunn reached a climax of his career when his official state portrait of Queen Elizabeth took the place of honor at the new Royal Academy exhibition in London...
...paint the picture, Gunn worked at Buckingham Palace for six months. The Queen posed only half a dozen times; for the rest he used previous sketches and a dummy made to her measurements and clothed in her coronation gown. Crown and scepter were delivered from the Tower of London as needed. The end result makes Elizabeth look every inch a queen, though with none of the sparkle and radiance that the camera caught during the coronation ceremonies. Says Gunn of his approach to his subject: "A portrait should be what the char sees. That's what I was aiming...