Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislative turmoil in India's seventh largest state (pop. 36,000,000) was only one numbing throb in what has become a royal headache for Indira Gandhi's Congress Party. Twenty years after India's independence and the merging of the country's 554 autonomous kingdoms with its British-run provinces, the maharajahs, princelings and other assorted royalty left over from the old days are turning to politics and making things increasingly warm for the Congress Party. The party, in turn, is angrily threatening to cut off the pensions and special privileges of the princes...
...little girl outside asking for something to eat." It was a pretty cute surprise when he went out and found British Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 48, along with Partner Rudolf Nureyev, 28, and seven friends, all clamoring for some rum and Chinese goodies after a performance of the touring Royal Ballet. Two hours later, the merrymakers danced off into the night-and now it was the San Francisco police department's turn to be surprised. At 3 a.m. cops answered a call to turn off a noisy hippie party at a pad in Haight-Ashbury, chased the gang...
...gold. No two guest rooms are alike, and once a guest settles on a favorite, he is likely to insist on the same room year after year. Three suites are patterned after the chambers of Louis XIV, XV and XVI. But Sophia Loren favors No. 414, the so-called Royal Suite, copied from Josephine's boudoir at Malmaison...
...flight bag containing a change of underwear." ¶ Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain. Queen Maria Cristina started it all back in 1912, when the city built a five-story hotel to accommodate the countless chamberlains, ministers, officers, grandees and courtiers who followed her to Miramar, the royal summer residence on the Bay of Biscay. Led by the Duke of Alba, the Duke of Lerma and the Duke of Pinohermoso (who once commandeered the couch in the ladies' powder room rather than sleep in another hotel), the Spanish aristocracy still faithfully flocks to the Maria Cristina every summer...
...Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, France. Like the nearby Maria Cristina, the Palais is the expression of a royal whim: Emperor Napoleon III built it as a summer residence in 1854 to please his wife Eugénie. The palace closed when the dynasty fell, but it reopened as a hotel in 1894 and has been one of the world's finest ever since. La specialité de la maison is pamper le guest. Winston Churchill became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just...