Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Sept. 17 article on Estes Kefauver, the statement is made that Phredonia Estes was descended from the d'Este family, rulers of Ferrara. According to most known accounts, the family died out in the 18th century. Furthermore, I cannot conceive of any descendant of such a royal house allowing his name to degenerate to Estes...
Nobody outside the innermost palace councils knows exactly what Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told the three eminent statesmen whom she herself had drafted to help mend the rift in the royal family. But the worries of Netherlanders were set at rest at least momentarily last August, when they read reports issuing from the National News Agency that the Queen had "promised' to do all in her own power to reach a reconciliation with her husband (TIME, Sept. 3). Juliana, it was said, had not only agreed to see no more of Greet Hofmans, the faith healer whose influence...
...Since when did a Queen of the House of Orange have to promise anything to her confidential advisers? Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group. The only change made in the royal household was a minor one planned before the "three wise men" were called in for help. Meanwhile, the nation itself was in the midst of a Cabinet crisis whose solution was made virtually impossible because of the worsening situation in the palace...
...deepest secrecy and significantly failed to endorse the new scheme. From his Christ Church study overlooking the meadow, the venerable Lord Cherwell, Sir Winston Churchill's top wartime brain-truster and now adviser for Britain's atomic-energy program, issued a statement solemnly urging that a Royal Commission be appointed to study the matter. After such a body had deliberated a few years, the menace of the Suez Canal crisis would undoubtedly have passed, and the 35 Christ Church men in the House of Commons might again be able to turn their energies to the menace...
When the Russian invited him out for a drink, Staples asked a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer for advice and was told to accept and keep the Mountie informed. Then, under the illusion that he had been deputized as a counterspy, Staples began chumming around with Popov and other Russians; the conversation eventually drifted around to Staples' work and R.C.A.F. aircraft. His police friend warned him to stop, but Staples continued meeting the Russians. Finally, when Popov gave him $50 (Staples said he gave it back) and spoke about providing him with a camera, government security officers cracked down...