Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East. Danes have had a warm spot for Margrethe's kid sister ever since the King allowed in public years ago that the little girl was "strong-minded" and had "bad habits." They worry that the princess may be in for political unpleasantness as Greece's Queen. Many Danish parents sided with their Queen when she tried to make Anne-Marie wait another year before getting engaged. As it was, the wedding was originally set for next January, and was only moved forward when Constantine mounted the throne after his father's death last March...
Anne-Marie, who belongs to Europe's oldest dynasty, is a distant cousin of her husband-to-be*,-and is also a descendant of Queen Victoria, Constantine's great-great-grandmother. They first met in July 1957, when she was not quite eleven and he was a naval cadet on a Greek training ship. The rumors started four years later. Anne-Marie, who was not overly bright as a student, attended two Swiss schools to learn French but got most of her education at the private coed Zahle School in Copenhagen. One day, startled by a piercing wolf...
...quarter of Finland lie above the Arctic Circle. -They had the same great-great-grandfather, Denmark's King Christian IX (1818-1906), whose skill at bagging the better thrones for his children earned him the sobriquet "Father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters was Queen Alexandra, wife of Britain's King Edward VII; another, Princess Dagmar, married Russia's Czar Alexander...
Thousands packed the Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin shores, and more than 100 small boats followed in pursuit, as three contenders puffed along in the first commercial riverboat race on the upper Mississippi in modern times, a six-mile feature of the Dubuque summer festival. The tug Coal Queen took an early lead, but the Mary soon pulled ahead, leaving the excursion liner Julie N. Dubuque II to finish third. Owner of the Coal Queen was Iowa's poet of the pajama game, Author-Playwright Richard Bissell, 51, a Harvardman you can always tell will go along gamely with whatever...
...eventually disillusioned Duke of Buckminster, played with marvelous inflections by Patrick Hines, is the finest of the supporting cast. Margaret Phillips, lurking ominously on the periphery long before she speaks, is deeply penetrating as the widowed Queen Margaret. Terence Scammell is a strikingly handsome and clean-spoken Dorset; Tom Sawyer, a rich-voiced Clarence; John Devlin, a manly Hastings; and Rex Everhart, honing a dagger on his shoe, a memorable First Murderer. Jacqueline Brookes' Elizabeth, unimpressive in her earlier scenes, summons up the requisite power for the interview in which Richard seeks permission to wed her daughter...