Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Gentleman. In the decade since that decorous orgy of sentimentality and ceremonial that was Britain's Royal Wedding, old colonies have become new nations. Elizabeth herself has become a mother twice over, a Queen and the first citizen of a free association of nations unlike anything in the world before. The angry towhead who once screamed to the world that he was "Philip-just Philip" has not only acquired a hairbrush, but a sonorous list of ranks and titles-he is a Knight Commander of the Garter, the officially designated "First Gentleman of the Realm,"* His Royal Highness...
Betweentimes, he slipped out of the palace to play polo and cricket, to take his young son sailing. Not even the Queen herself was immune from her husband's restless energy. "I think Prince Philip is mad," she once exclaimed to a palace servant, as her husband, bored stiff with a moment of inactivity, darted out of the palace door in a cocoon of sweaters, to "work up a sweat." During their marriage, Elizabeth has succeeded to some extent in calming her impetuous husband, restraining his often explosive impatience ("Philip," she is often heard to remonstrate...
Navy Wife. Early in their marriage, after persuading his father-in-law to return him to active naval service, Philip insisted that Elizabeth join him in Malta and live like any other officer's wife. For the first time in her life, the future Queen really saw how the other half lived. She drove her own Daimler, went shopping and danced with her husband and his friends till the early morning. Readers of Britain's Sunday supplements nodded in approval as they noted the new slim dimensions of her figure and the sharper, smarter cut of her clothes...
Last year he persuaded the Queen to let him take the royal yacht Britannia on a four-month tour of the Antarctic and the lesser British island possessions in the Indian Ocean. This was the separation that later set off the rumors in the U.S. press of a royal rift. Elizabeth's subjects, however, were more sensible. Australians were charmed when he talked to wharf laborers, called in small groups of representative citizens for cocktails and dinner and quizzed them on Commonwealth affairs. New Zealanders remember him fondly at a lunch in Christchurch, breaking into the speeches...
...Canada's King." It was a startling declaration to tradition-minded Canadians; the empire-shouting Montreal Gazette indignantly rejected it as "disloyal." But last week, when Prime Minister John Diefenbaker welcomed Elizabeth II for the first visit by a reigning British monarch since 1939, he said: "The Queen of Canada is a term which we like to use because it utterly represents her role on this occasion...