Word: ruritania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After playing the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in five Pink Panther pictures, Peter Sellers is reveling in his role as the dashing playboy King of Ruritania in a new film version of Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. "I rather enjoy being called Your Majesty all day," says Sellers. He is especially pleased at getting the royal treatment from his real-life wife, Lynne Frederick, 24, who co-stars in the film as the king's betrothed, Princess Flavia. So enamored is Sellers of his new cinematic self, a role made memorable by Ronald Colman...
...true secret of Britain's new role, which is something between that of Nkrumah's Ghana and Anthony Hope's Ruritania, was best revealed in last week's royal wedding, when Princess Anne was joined to her bridegroom, the semiarticulate Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. Outside observers might not have spotted the true significance of the event. They noted the depraved sentimentality and obsequiousness of newspaper and television coverage. On top of this, they heard the ribald comments of any English friends who happened to be around. They might have decided that the nation...
...high time that the White House guards were given a fitting ceremonial uniform. The usual U.S. police uniform is exactly the same as that of a night watchman. All hail Graustark, Ruritania and Danilo-the Hart, Schaffner & Marx of the Nixon Administration...