Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest and luncheon preceded by a prim round of sherry, Ike and Mamie emerged from the forbidding mansion to plant two ceremonial maple trees on the frozen lawn. That night, at a glittering, full-dress state dinner, the President was toasted and in turn proposed the toast to the Queen. The President wore the British Order of Merit, awarded him by the late King George...
Greece's ubiquitous King Paul and Queen Frederika turned up in Hollywood, where they dropped in on the White Christmas set at Paramount. Stars Vera-Ellen, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney greeted Their Majesties with a little ceremony in which they puffed out the candles on a large, dummy birthday cake. Amused but confused, the King observed: "It's not my birthday...
...consternation of the Home Office and Scotland Yard, Princess Margaret, with the blessing of Queen Elizabeth, broke an old royal precedent, went strolling with her Sealyham in London's St. James's Park, unescorted, and-for emphasis-without...
...Cairo, Egypt's ex-Queen Narriman, fed up with the penny-pinching and well-publicized antics of deposed King Farouk, slapped him with two suits, one for divorce, the other for $14,000-a-month alimony (which she can collect for only one year under Islamic law). In exile in Rome, leering and prancing as usual, Farouk told friends that he will deny everything (through a Syrian lawyer, because no Egyptian attorney will touch him with a 10ft. obelisk) and will ask the court to order Narriman to return to him and little ex-King Faud...
Later in the week the Queen sent to Parliament a message that was closer to her heart. It was a change in the Regency Act to make her husband, Philip, regent (in place of her sister, Margaret), in case the Queen should die before her son, Prince Charles, reaches maturity (18 for a British ruler). Some backbenchers grumbled at making a regent of someone who is not in the immediate line of succession, but her proposal is "agreed legislation," meaning that it has been approved by the major parties beforehand...