Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway Pier, her Royal Marine band played, then a U.S. Navy band. Suddenly the craning crowd of 6,000 broke into unbuttoned cheers, while several hundred reporters looked on. There were even scattered choruses of The White Cliffs of Dover and There'll Always Be an England. Queen Elizabeth II had arrived...
...well-to-do had paid $99 for harborside hotel rooms, and the hoi polloi jammed the sidewalks. It seemed none of them (save the Queen) could help smiling and clapping or waving their $3 Union Jacks. Hundreds of overnight campers stood on lounge chairs or watched the spectacle on portable TVs. Nora de la Cruz brought her portrait of the Queen trimmed with cotton. Said she: "Too bad we could have no block parties...
That was about the only celebration not planned for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during their ten-day visit to the West Coast. After lunch aboard U.S.S. Ranger (where a sailor, Devon Rowlands, said it had been "a bigger deal when Suzanne Somers visited in 1981"), they were off to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (where they were given photos of sea slugs) and the San Diego Zoo (where the animals' lunch was delayed so they would be friskier...
...night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry Como). So Ol' Blue Eyes blew up, understandably but in vain, about his exclusion from the Queen's smallish (50 or so) dinners aboard Britannia...
...Queen and Prince Philip are experienced at playing themselves in public, but rarely has the royal whirl been so fatiguingly scheduled. Even the ordinarily laid-back colonials in Mellowland, Fleet Street's sobriquet for California, are stepping lively. - By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Mary Cronin with the Queen and Alessandra Stanley/ San Diego