Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quietly notes the occasion, but when William Arthur Philip Louis, the future King of England, turned six months old, Mom and Dad invited the press and TV cameras. Inundated during her travels around the country with requests for more baby photos, Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, convinced his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, that in addition to her traditional Christmas TV broadcast, there should be one of Sweet William to satisfy the interest of his future subjects...
...DIED. Queen Helen of Rumania, 86, stately Princess of Greece and Denmark whose marriage to the irresponsible King Carol II was the stuff of tragic drama; in Lausanne. Seven years after their wedding in 1921, the strong-willed Queen divorced her recklessly unfaithful husband, and later entered a quiet European exile, declaring: "My life has been a sad one for years, and now I am going out into the dark:" Moved by her dignity and grace, Rumanians urged her to resume her royal duties, but thereafter she served only as an unassuming Queen Mother and adviser to her son Michael...
...real-life Queen and Knave of Hearts (Taylor and Burton) have been plotting a return to Broadway in Noel Coward's Private Lives. Meanwhile, Richard's daughter Kate Burton (by his first wife Sybil) has finished her Coward duties with George C. Scott in Present Laughter, and is moving on to Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. The Broadway show is set to open on Dec. 23, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Carroll's birth and the 50th anniversary of Actress Eva Le Gallienne's original stage presentation. Inspired by the illustrations of Sir John Tenniel...
...lowdown violence stand out. Hamlet stabs Polonius (George Hall) as he stands behind the arras not once but repeatedly in an orgiastic frenzy. In the dueling finale with Laertes, Venora kicks him in the rear, scarcely the mark of the "noble Dane." In the bedroom scene, this Hamlet pummels Queen Gertrude (Kathleen Widdoes) so bruisingly that when the poignant line "How is it with you, lady?" is uttered, the audience breaks into semi-suppressed laughter, having witnessed the beating the lady has taken...
...magnificent as its price. The drawings come in a large portfolio box, accompanied by a 250-page volume of text and notes; the whole production is partly bound in royal blue Nigerian goatskin. It would be less expensive to jet to Britain and wangle an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to browse in her private collection. But even then, the fortunate traveler would return emptyhanded. Thanks to Johnson Reprint, the closest things to Leonardo's originals are to be had and held...