Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked into paddy wagons. Some 200 people were jailed. Taking advantage of the chaos, a six-man gang waylaid the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, sped off in a white Jaguar with her jewels, worth $200,000. Most shocking of all, for the first time in her eleven-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II was booed by her own people...
Cause of the trouble was the long-expected, long-disputed state visit to Britain by Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika. Fearing precisely the kind of left-wing demonstrations that occurred last week, Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis advised against the trip, resigned when the royal couple refused to bow to pressure and decided to go anyway. British political critics base their case against the King and Queen largely on the fact that Greek jails still contain about 1,000 prisoners seized more than a decade ago during the civil war; most are believed to be Communist...
That night, while the royal couples and 156 other guests dined in Buckingham Palace, 2,000 demonstrators poured into Trafalgar Square with banners proclaiming "Down with the Nazi Queen." The crowd seemed bent on storming the palace but encountered massed lines of bobbies blocking the way. Police helmets clattered across sidewalks, fists flew, traffic stalled, and prancing police horses bowled over crowds. Rioters fought off cops from atop a doubledeck bus. A few youths who made it to the Mall were stopped by flying tackles...
Held back by six rows of police, 1,500 people outside greeted the royal arrivals with an ugly din of boos, hisses and mocking shouts of "Sieg heil!" and "fascist swine." Thousands of others cheered. After the play, Queen Elizabeth left the theater alone, and was greeted by another chorus of boos. She looked startled and dismayed. It was probably the first time that British royalty had been so publicly humiliated at home since Edward VII was hissed at Epsom in the last century after rumor involved him as a corespondent in a divorce case...
...from Dante's Inferno. Francesca, the beautiful wife of Giovanni Malatesta, a hunchbacked nobleman, is in love with her husband's brother, Paolo. Paolo has visited Francesca every day for a year to read her romantic poetry. One day he reads her the tale of how Launcelot first kissed Queen Guenivere, and that day is "the day they read of it no more." When Giovanni sees them Jeave arm in arm, he decides to murder them...