Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heather. Fat Black Angus cattle grazed on the rolling hills. Trout-filled streams gurgled cheerfully. U.S. reporters rolling out into the Highlands with the President and Prince Philip, who had met him, were surprised that so few Scotsmen wore kilts. But when they got to the gates of royal Balmoral, the Americans got the full treatment-bagpipes howling fiendishly, Royal Highland Fusiliers crashing to attention...
...guard of honor is formed up and ready for your inspection. Sir." A murmur was running through the crowd: "Oooooooh, the Queen." There stood Elizabeth, pregnant and officially out of sight, yet slim and pretty in a baby blue, three-button suit and a small white straw hat. The royal family whisked the President off to the great castle, then to a picnic tea beside shining Loch Muick. When Elizabeth whispered something in the President's ear, he said: "Oh, wonderful. Wonderful...
...Anything . . ." Up early next morning, Ike had a leisurely breakfast in his three-room suite on Balmoral's ground floor, met the royal family in a drawing room for a final chat, then with Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, walked out of the castle onto the closely cropped lawn. As a group of reporters and photographers (admitted to the grounds under a pool arrangement) approached, Ike put his hand on Princess Anne's blonde head. Asked he: "Are you going to learn to cook?" The Queen answered for her daughter: "I'll send...
...Tibet, and in any fighting the Bhutan army of 2,500, equipped with rifles and bows and arrows, would have only the rugged terrain to its advantage. Bhutan is ruled by a handsome, English-speaking, archery-loving young Dragon King who has freed the slaves, discouraged prostration in the royal presence, and decreed equality for women. He is determined to keep his country's independence. Anxious about Bhutan, Nehru has invited its Prime Minister down to talk mutual defense...
...spirit was so strong that hundreds of men escaped from P.W. compounds after the battle. Among them was Surgeon Paul, who took through the barbed wire with him "the specimen of a traumatic aneurysm which I'd removed in [Arnhem] and . . . had a whim to present to ... the Royal College of Surgeons...