Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cousin. Lieut. Mountbatten had not always seemed so important to his royal cousin. When Elizabeth first met him at a Palace luncheon given by her grandparents, she was six. Reports say that she was not visibly moved. In later years there were many other casual meetings. But his older relatives seemed to find Philip more interesting than Elizabeth did. King George and Philip had long chats about the Navy. At Queen Mary's wartime home at Badminton House, the Queen Mother and her young cousin would spend hours lopping off branches to drag home for fuel...
...Elizabeth's tea-table talk. Her friends began to have their suspicions, and often prankish Princess Margaret would infuriate her sister by wondering out loud if Elizabeth's heart was jumping when Philip was due for a visit. Then, last fall, Philip spent several weeks with the Royal Family at Balmoral. By the time Philip's visit was over, Elizabeth's mind was made up, and she told her father all about it. As fathers the world over are prone to do, George suggested that she wait a while. The London papers, meanwhile, had started...
...affection, there were many drawbacks to the match. Prince Philip had applied for British citizenship, but he was still technically of Greek nationality, although he had not been in that country since he was a year old. Britain was deeply involved in the Greek political picture, and the royal house of which Philip was still a member was not popular with Britain's Laborites. Elizabeth and Philip went on seeing one another, but always circumspectly. Then Elizabeth was whisked away to South Africa...
After waiting half an hour for Britain's Royal Family to arrive for the final match, Kramer went to work on fellow Californian Tom Brown. It was not even close. Kramer's big serve, with its high and tricky bounce, his skill at the net, his brilliant passing shots were all going like clockwork. It was all over in 45 minutes: 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, but Kramer was convinced that he had put on a lackluster show. Said he afterwards: "We were both excited and nervous before the match started because there was such a long...
...biggest news of the 108-year-old Henley Royal Regatta was the victory of 20-year-old Philadelphian John B. Kelly Jr. In the same race 27 years ago, Kelly's father, a champion Olympic sculler, was denied the right to compete because he had once done manual labor (as a bricklayer during a college vacation). The rule had since been repealed, but Kelly Sr., now a Philadelphia contractor, vowed that a son of his would one day win the prized Diamond Sculls. Last week he was one of the thousands on shore who saw his son finish eight...