Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's elderly Home Secretary, fusty Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, was doing his godmotherly duty. As the law required, he was standing by at the birth of a royal princeling to see that it was the genuine article. In days of yore he would have been in the bedroom, but this was 1926: Sir William waited decently outside with the nervous father, His Royal Highness, the Duke of York. Presently a small pink bundle was brought to them. Sir William peered. The bundle, third in line of succession to a royal throne, yawned magnificently. Satisfied of the infant...
From Umtata, bringing the showers with him, the Royal Rainmaker and his family chuffed northward in their cream-&-gold train to the high plateau of the Orange...
Bees on the Cake. In Bloemfontein Princess Margaret got a special thrill with her first ride in an airplane, when she and the family piled into their royal Vikings for a quick picnic in the Free State Game Reserve. Princess Elizabeth had already had her big moment in East London when she christened a new dry dock and was given five flawless diamonds from...
...discussed the book. Leading Siamese critics and historians had taken pains to point out that it was more than 75% inaccurate (refined King Mongkut, for example, had certainly never burned a wife). The criticisms only made the movie more of a treat, because most Siamese had expected the royal family to ban it altogether, or censor it beyond recognition. But the President of the Regency, faithful to Anna Leonowen's precepts, had decided after careful consideration to leave it alone. "The people want to see the film in its entirety," he said, "and in a democracy the people...
...Iraq, the concessions are held by the Iraq Petroleum Co., which is owned by Anglo-Iranian Oil (23¾%); the British-controlled Royal Dutch-Shell (23¾%); Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum, through their jointly owned Near East Development Corp. (23¾%); the French Government through its Compagnie Française des Petroles (23¾%). The only individual is a mysterious Armenian financier, Calouste S. Gulbenkian, whose 5% gives him a distant claim to the title of the "world's richest...