Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Princess Margriet, 23, third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands; and Pieter van Vollenhoven, 27, lawyer son of a Dutch sail manufacturer, whom she met at college; in The Hague...
...Sweden's royal palace had only one painting on its walls. That was the year Queen Christina came to the throne: 22 years and 500 paintings later, she had made Stockholm into the Athens of the North. Now 300 years and 14 monarchs later, Sweden has still another royal art lover. He is Gustaf VI Adolf, 84, and he collects things Chinese...
...Gustaf made his first purchase: a hexagonal famille rose dish of the Ch'ien Lung period. In the interim he has bought about 2,400 objects for his collection which he works at with as much archaeological curiosity as artistic love. Even the dog he gave the late Queen Louise is a Pekinese named Eisei, and she laps water from a modern Scandinavian imitation of an ancient Chinese stoneware bowl placed on a square of Chinese carpet in the palace's museum room...
...late Queen Louise lovingly used to twit the King about his digging enthusiasms. Once, while the royal limousine was inching along a torn-up street in Stockholm, she asked him: "Gusti, have you been busy here lately?" But she was equally proud of his accomplishments, used to remark: "I didn't marry a King. I married a professor." And very like a professor the King still acts, always carrying a pocket magnifying glass and often remarking that if Sweden ever got rid of his crown, he could always go to work in a museum...
January brought good cheer and good news to the Very Rev. Sir George MacLeod, fourth Baronet MacLeod of Fuinary, sometime Moderator of the Church of Scotland and-quite possibly- that nation's best-known living Protestant minister. In her New Year's Honors List, Queen Elizabeth raised Sir George to the rank of baron; he thus becomes the first Church of Scotland cleric ever entitled to sit in the House of Lords...