Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Commons one day last week and, for all his determination not to, twanged the bowstring of Britain's royal romance. The Churchill government, announced the dry, donnish Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposes to change the law which designates Princess Margaret as regent should her sister the Queen die before Prince Charles...
...Regency Act. said Rab Butler, should be altered. The plan is to make Queen Elizabeth's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, regent. The Queen feels it proper that Prince Charles's father, not his 22-year-old aunt, should train the boy for the responsibilities of the throne and shoulder those responsibilities as regent, if need...
...government, it seemed, was deliberately relieving the Princess of one great obstacle to her marrying a commoner. Butler made clear that the regency change has been in the wind for more than a year. The question of freeing Margaret to marry Townsend-a matter requiring the approval of the Queen, the government and the Church of England-had nothing to do with it. "Such a matter . . . has never come before the cabinet." said he, "and I think I am voicing the opinion of all members when I say that . . . deplorable speculation and gossip [should be] brought...
...never escape their gifts. Hilaire Belloc was gifted, and though he wrote millions of words of prose, scored thousands of arguments, everything finally was resolved in rhyme, which was his gift. Nothing in his histories, noted for their dogged Catholicism, is more scathing than his four lines about Protestant Queen Anne's Lord Treasurer, Godolphin...
...coronation year, perhaps the most memorable picture taken with a Speed Graphic camera, which most newspaper photographers use, was the radiant shot of Queen Elizabeth waving from her carriage (TIME, Nov. 17). But last week, in Graflex's annual $10,000 contest, Charles Dawson's portrait of Elizabeth, for United Press, came in third ($200). Top honors went to a picture of a more universal and more timeless theme-a soldier coming home from the wars (see cut). James N. Keen of the Louisville Courier-Journal won the $500 first prize for his shot of Captain Darrell...