Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...princess of the Swedish blood royal, he was a poor but honest piano player. They met in a London nightclub where he was a paid performer. He proposed, and she accepted. But the princess' mother forbade the marriage, and the lovers sadly parted...
Last week the London press got wind of the story of the princess and the piano player and spread it all over their front pages. In Stockholm, Baron Carl-Reinhold von Essen, Master of the Royal Household, made a formal statement: "It was a little innocent affair in London, as so often happens between young people, and the whole matter was declared ended with the Princess Sibylla's reply to the Englishman's letter of proposal. This reply was very polite but definite. The proposal was, from the Swedish viewpoint, to be considered impossible...
...Sultan was on the spot. Just before El Glaoui died last year at 80, the old man had groveled abjectly before the man he had forced into exile, begging forgiveness. The Sultan had granted it, and promised royal protection for El Glaoui's sons and heirs. But the militant Istiqlal had no such inhibitions. It called on the Moundamah Seria, an irregular secret police organized by the Istiqlal during the battle for independence. On May Day the Moundamah Seria's armed men moved. One Glaoui son was seized as he drove through the old medina. Three others were...
Britain's art circles, as well as common folk beyond the esthetic perimeters, were stewing and snarling about a 6-ft. portrait of Prince Philip, the work of Italy's able Pietro Annigoni and the most debated sensation of the Royal Academy's new exhibition. Cried the London Daily Mall's critic: "If he really is like that, I shouldn't like to meet him in the dark." Rasped the Daily Mirror: "A very good pavement artist's job." "I wonder what the Queen thinks of [it]," mused the Star's observer...
...really Cromwell's head? It looks like him-to the reddish beard and mustache and the wart over the right eyebrow. Scholars who examined it at the Royal Archaeological Institute believed it to be genuine. In Canon Wilkinson's house last week the old Roundhead rested in its oaken box. No one seemed disposed to demand burial...