Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Truman's private plane, the Independence. At 3 that same afternoon, the Queen's husband Philip went to London Airport to meet his aunt, the Queen of Sweden, and her royal husband Gustaf Adolf. Exiled Prince Paul of Yugoslavia came, and was whisked off by his sister-in-law the Duchess of Kent-just in time to avoid meeting Yugoslavia's Communist President Ribar. Francisco Franco's Foreign Minister got in from Lisbon just before the Pretender to the Spanish throne. The King and Queen of Denmark steamed into Harwich harbor under an escort...
...funeral. Solemn lines of Navy ratings (enlisted men) in uniform blue hauled the gun carriage that bore the King's coffin. Behind them, in the bright red and gilt state coach, rode the bereaved women, dim, veiled, scarcely visible: Britain's young Queen, her mother, her sister Margaret and her aunt, the Princess Royal. Behind them, walking four abreast, came the Royal Dukes: Edinburgh, the Queen's husband; Gloucester, the King's younger brother; Windsor, who had once been King himself; and Kent, his 16-year-old nephew...
...based on a New Yorker short story by Edward Newhouse, finds ex-Marine Ralph Meeker committed to a veterans' hospital because of his morbid tendency to hide under tables whenever it rains. When he is finally pronounced well enough to move in with his sister and brother-in-law (Nancy Davis and James Whitmore), they at first hesitate to bring him into close contact with their two children. But eventually they give in to the urgings of conscience embodied in Jean Hagen, a whimsical young woman who has met Meeker at hospital dances...
Mittee is a story of South Africa in the 1890s, and of three people who have known each other since they were children. Mittee, the white girl, is badly spoiled. With Selina, her maid, she is an unpredictable mixture of warmth and harshness, sometimes petting her and whispering "sister" in her ear, sometimes beating her spitefully. Equally proud and far more shrewd, Selina can only cry out helplessly, "I love her and I hate her, you could never understand...
This chart shows the line of succession as it is today. If Prince Charles dies or abdicates without heirs, his little sister Anne will inherit the throne. Next in line after Anne: the new Queen's sister, Princess Margaret. Thereafter, the succession goes through the late King George VI's brothers, nieces and nephews: first, to the Duke of Gloucester, and his sons William and Richard; then, to the children of George, Duke of Kent, who died in World War II when his R.A.F. flying boat crashed in Scotland. They are: Edward, now Duke of Kent, Michael (whose...