Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birthday of the Infanta, by Ron Nelson, 29, graduate student at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and composer of promotional-film sound tracks. Following Oscar Wilde's story, a dwarf falls in love with a Spanish princess and persuades her to set up her throne in the forest. The scheme is frustrated by the captain of the guard, and tragedy closes in. The music reminded listeners of both Puccini and Menotti, and suggested that Birthday will have many happy returns...
...began in the courtyard of the ornate royal Palace of the Monkey God, the slight young King, in white jodhpurs and tunic, and his young Queen Devi, in a bright red sari, strolled casually in to take their places, cross-legged and barefoot, on white cushions placed before the throne...
...Elephant Ride. All around them, saffron-robed Brahman priests bustled hither and thither, frequently consulting notebooks to get the complex ritual straight. An occasional argument in stage whispers broke out and was quickly hushed. After the royal couple mounted the throne-at exactly the auspicious moment of 10:43 a-m-the nead Priest, moving carefully so as not to knock off the young King's glasses, placed upon the monarch's head a peaked helmet adorned with bird-of-paradise feathers* and some $2,000,000 worth of precious gems...
...were approaching a solemn moment in which each planned to pledge his life to the other. In the maelstrom of confused protocol and embattled public relations, the strain of that moment was beginning to show on each. Rainier fidgeted nervously during the 16-minute civil ceremony in the palace throne room that made them man and wife in the eyes of Monaco law. By the following day, the wear and tear on his fiancée was beginning to show in telltale circles beneath her coolly beautiful blue eyes. At least one member of the wedding party, Newlywed Actress Rita...
...civil wedding took place in the palace throne room, which was described by I.N.S. as decorated with "gilded damask," by the New York Herald Tribune as "crimson damasked," and by the New York Post as "tapestried and frescoed." During the ceremony Grace Kelly had "tears in her eyes" for the U.P., but the A.P. said flatly: "No tears." Miss Kelly, said the U.P., looked at Prince Rainier just once, with a "shy glance." The Herald Tribune called it "a proud romantic glance"; the New York Times thought it was "twice . . . distraughtly," while I.N.S. wrote that she glanced "often...