Word: queens
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...Elizabeth's significance? It was no more-and no less-than the significance of a fresh young blossom on roots that had weathered many a season of wintry doubt. The British, as weary and discouraged as the rest of the world in 1952, saw in their new young Queen a reminder of a great past when they had carved out empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future. Her dramatic flight from a vacation in Kenya at George VI's death to take her place...
...have no quarrel with this sentiment at all, so long as it is not used as an excuse for stagnation . . . but do not forget that the great position of British industry was won when we led the world in inventive imagination and the spirit of adventure." The Queen Is Leaving. Like most young couples in the early years of their marriage, the Queen of Britain and her husband are engaged in a friendly struggle for domination in their own affairs, but Philip is no Prince Albert (who once complained, "I am only the husband, never the master in my house...
Elizabeth's obvious happiness in Prince Philip and their children has added new softness to her character and new beauty to her face, just as becoming Queen has added a new dimension to her practical intelligence. "It never occurred to me that she could be a deep thinker," confessed one of Elizabeth's elder advisers recently, "but every now and then, just lately, I catch her reflecting in a way she never used to ... groping for a glimpse, a blurred glimpse of the workings of destiny...
...around 9:15 Nurse Helen Lightbody ("Nana") ushers in the children, accompanied by the Queen's two corgies, Susan and Sugar, for half an hour of play...
...problems of his new see, and Elizabeth as head of the church must be interested and informed. It may be a visiting Governor General from one of the Commonwealth nations, come for luncheon with his lady. Gourmet or no, the guest must face the fact that Elizabeth the Queen likes short meals and plain, wholesome British fare. After lunch (maximum: an hour and a quarter) come the public appearances-a ship to be launched, a hospital to be visited, an exhibition to be opened, a cornerstone to be laid-always accompanied with a gracious, impromptu and neat little speech...