Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Family, assiduously escorted by their busy host Prime MinisterSmuts-whom the King personally invested with the Order of Merit-shuttled between official receptions and informal garden parties, intransigent nationalists wilted left & right before the family's charm. Daniel Malan, nationalist leader of the opposition, conscientiously boycotted Parliament's address of welcome, but even he was on hand at the state banquet. In a Cape Town park, a group of ardent anti-Britishers enjoying a barbecue apologized for their open shirts and rolled-up sleeves when ubiquitous Smuts suddenly appeared and introduced them to the King & Queen...
...five days cheering Capetonians lined the royal routes and jampacked the parade grounds next to the City Hall to get a glimpse of the visitors, of Princess Margaret's poke bonnets, and the Queen's ostrich feathers. South African couturiers expected both to set a new style. (Since South Africa is a leading producer of ostrich feathers, this feature of the Queen's costume attracted special attention.) At a Civic Ball in the town, Princess Elizabeth danced the Princess Foxtrot (composed in her honor) with Cape Town's Mayor Abe Bloomberg. On the following...
Next day in Paarl, a hotbed of nationalist sentiment, royalty met "General" Hendrik Marsh, whose fascistic Ossewa Brandwag organization's purposes have ranged from sabotaging the British war effort to outlawing Santa Claus as a British imperialist importation.* Said Marsh afterward: "The Royal Family captured us completely by their gracious simplicity. We expected pomp. Now that I've met Their Majesties, I'd personally like to ask them to stay here...
...Queen Mary's borrowed diamond tiara for her), to preside at the opening of South Africa's Parliament -the first British monarchs ever to do so. The King spoke for six minutes, first in English, then in Afrikaans. That night the family boarded the 14-car royal gold-and-cream train, to continue their conquests over 5,000 miles for the next eight weeks...
Died. Princess Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo...