Word: savoyism
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...time it produced Prince Victor Emmanuel, the 900-year-old House of Savoy was wearing a bit thin. The Prince's father, King Umberto I, decided to improve the breed by marrying off little (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel.to booming, strapping (6 ft.) Elena, daughter of Montenegro's peasant king, Nicholas. In his 46 years as King of Italy, and sometime ruler of Albania and Ethiopia, Victor Emmanuel confirmed his father's early suspicion that there was room for improvement...
...socks. With quiet dignity, the man in blue had paid official calls, passed in & out of Buckingham Palace during the week of Princess Elizabeth's wedding, worked late at his suite at the Dorchester. There had been a weekend with Prime Minister Attlee at Chequers, and a Savoy reception by the Canada Club. Once Mr. King slipped away to visit his portrait painter, Artist Frank Salisbury, at Hampstead. There, after dinner, Mrs. Salisbury had played his favorite, Handel's Largo...
Glitter & Garter. Most Britons seemed content to call armistice on austerity for the moment at least. Some pickets at the Savoy Hotel obligingly effaced themselves when the bride turned up there for a reception. Despite royal permission that business suits be worn by gentlemen at the ceremony, wedding guests were swamping famed Moss Bros. with orders for rented cutaway coats and striped trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear...
...suite at the Savoy Hotel, swarthy Prince Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasi, 23, descendant of Bagdad's Caliphs, and heir to the fabulously wealthy throne of Bahawalpur in the Punjab, idly leafed through the News of the World. His eye lit on Katherine's picture. Could he, he asked by the next mail, come and congratulate such a lucky girl in person? The two arranged a rendezvous outside crowded Walham Green Underground station. Then the Prince went to Fulham to meet the family. They called him Harry...
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. might well have imagined himself back in the Secretary of State's office. As newsmen trooped into a press conference with him in a grey-carpeted suite in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza, he was flanked by a three-man Government mission from Liberia. But this time he had a business deal to announce: a $1,000,000 partnership between U.S. financiers and the Negro republic...