Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Margaret Webb Royal Oak, Mich...
Since Charles II appointed John Dryden England's first Poet Laureate in 1668, the office has been occupied by a number of distinguished men, including Wordsworth, Tennyson, John Masefield and C. Day Lewis. But the job is no plum. As an officer of the royal household, a Poet Laureate ranks just above Bargemaster and Keeper of the Swans. By today's devaluated standards, his pay is $122.50 a year, plus $47.25 in lieu of a butt of sack-once part of the traditional stipend...
...line Jubilee Hymn on grounds that it was meant to be sung, not recited. Indeed, it had been set to melody by Malcolm Williamson, Master of the Queen's Music, and drew loud applause when performed by the Trinity Boys' Choir at London's Royal Albert Hall...
...seems only yesterday that she was a mere princess, but the British are getting ready to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen ascended the throne Feb. 6, 1952, and official portraits of the royal family were released last week to mark the date. The main festivities, however, will take place in June because, explains a palace spokesman, "February is no time to conduct a celebration." The summer jubilee events will include parades, river pageants, bonfires and visits by the Queen to nearly every corner of the British Isles. The British Tourist Authority has issued...
...holiest mountains in Tibet. When he appeared, according to legend, pails of water turned to milk and a rainbow spread across the sky. The infant was declared to be the reincarnation of the tenth Trungpa Tulku, a supreme abbot of one of Tibet's strongest Buddhist sects. A royal coronation, attended by 13,000 monks, followed soon after, and the boy was raised to rule nearly a thousand square miles of farm land, grazing fields and fortress-like monasteries...