Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain's monarchy found itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household whose members saw only other aristocrats and seemed chiefly concerned with horse racing or - shooting grouse. But today, Britain's throne has never been more secure, nor its occupant more firmly rooted in her subjects' affections. The man chiefly responsible for building this new bridge of sympathy and understanding between throne and subject is the vigorous, handsome man Elizabeth married ten years...
Delicate Task. Philip could not model himself on his great-great-grandfather even if he would. He has no inclination to effacement, and even if he had a desire for power, the throne no longer commands it. Under the tacit terms of the constitution, Elizabeth is not allowed to express an opinion contrary to that of her parliamentary majority...
...Philip was the fifth child and only son of tall, monocled Prince Andrew, brother of King Constantine of Greece. By descent the family was not Greek, but belonged to the royal Danish House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which the British, French and Russians had put on the throne at the end of the 19th century. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Young Philip never learned Greek. His father, a lieutenant general, was blamed by clamoring republicans for a disaster in the short (1921-22) war with Turkey, was condemned...
...playing fields as a first-class athlete. Last month, when the time came to start their own son's period of formal education, Elizabeth and Philip together delivered eight-year-old Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, into the care of Cheam-the first heir to the British throne ever to go away to school like a commoner...
...Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall on those who especially relished a Babylon that looked like a New Orleans nightclub or a celestial throne that resembled a Negro lawyer's office in a Louisiana town. Said the spokesman: "There has been special emphasis in the physical production to point up the timelessness of the story-the fable aspect rather than any specific place or period...