Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Line. The spearhead of next week's invasion will be the lady. Amiable and easygoing, King Paul is as strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) a monarch as any society matron could wish for. Frederika, his 5-ft. 3-in. Queen, whose trim figure and impudent face are topped by an unruly mop of chestnut curls, was once described (to her face) by a U.S. Congressman in his cups as "the cutest little Queenie I ever...
...people." An American sergeant who owned a red M-G exa'ctly like the one which Frederika herself drives through Athens, took to waving companionably when the two cars passed. He was crestfallen and suddenly stiff with formality when he learned that his friendly fellow motorist was the Queen. "Relax, sergeant," said Frederika amiably, "and let's get back to our old waving basis...
...Victoria. This easy informality and Frederika's gift for bowling over generals, sergeants and congressmen alike has proved a major asset to a ruling house whose royal motto is: "My power is in the love of the people." But Greece's Queen is no royal flibbertigibbet. Born to the purple as well as being married to it, she takes what she calls "this King business" with deadly seriousness, and exploits every ounce of her charm and wit to strengthen its power...
...ever stop to think," Frederika once asked Winston Churchill, "that if your Queen Victoria had died before she reached the throne, my father would now be King of England?" Because Victoria did survive, the Duke of Cumberland, Victoria's uncle and Frederika's great-great-grandfather, had to be satisfied with the Kingdom of Hanover, and that was lost forever in 1866 when his son took the losing side in a war with the King of Prussia. The feud was not patched up until years later when the Hanoverian prince, Ernst August. Duke of Brunswick, married the daughter...
Frederika and Paul (another relative of Queen Victoria) had first met when she was only ten. Frederika boasts to this day that she fell in love with him at first sight...