Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elizabeth of England will be well received here," surmised the French weekly L'Express just before the Queen's arrival last week. "The French adore other people's monarchs." Almost everywhere Paris bespoke as much. Huge Union Jacks caught the spray from the Lalique fountains at the elegant Rond-Point des Champs-Ely-sees, and the Cross of St. George decorated the flower pots in front of a Pierre Cardin boutique in the Rue du Faubourg St.-Honor...
...rained on nearly all of Her Majesty's parades ("The Queen's weather," mused Le Monde), but the drizzle failed to dampen the French welcome. "Bigger crowds for the Queen than for the referendum on Europe," observed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchai=îné. Elizabeth's French, several reporters noted, was far better than Prime Minister Edward Heath's, and one columnist confided to his readers the great discovery that "the Queen likes all French food except oysters...
Amidst all the obsequious effusions, there was a glancing barb at the Queen's taste in hats-"For 20 years the same hat, to avoid hurting her hatter's feelings," teased one columnist...
Judge Rowe is an archconservative. At the other end of the spectrum, both ideologically and temperamentally, is Martha Jean, "the Queen," Detroit's 1,000-watt soul sister. "You are livin' with the Queen," she tells her mostly black audience on WJLB. "And that's pretty good livin', I betcha. All you got to do is be touched by the Queen and everything will be all right...
Before becoming a writer in 1962, Francis was for some years the best steeplechaser in England, eventually becoming jockey to the Queen Mother. He knows the hedges and hazards, the sites and social slights of British steeplechasing the way a car owner knows the dashboard of his five-year-old sedan. He has used his experiences to produce ten more or less equestrian suspense stories that are also novels of métier and manners. His best books are Dead Cert (the first, written in 1962), Nerve (1964), For Kicks (1965), Odds Against (1966) and Forfeit (1969). At that level...