Word: vevey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Separate Planes. With his wife Oona and his huge family, Chaplin lives in the village of Vevey in a 15-room villa called Manoir de Ban, staffed by 13 servants, including two nannies. From its 69 acres of grass and gardens, the Chaplins have a panoptic view of Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc range. They seldom go out to mingle with the Swiss, whom Charlie calls "those natives." (Englishman that he is, he has never learned the local French.) But visitors of all sorts make pilgrimages to Manoir de Ban-from old Hollywood cronies to such distinguished guests...
...Into Vevey, Switzerland, for the wedding of Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon, 24, to a Spanish banking heiress, bounced Egypt's suety ex-King Farouk, 41, accompanied by second daughter Princess Fawzia, 21. Europe's reigning royalty was conspicuously absent, but 180 lesser bloods crammed into the small Russian Orthodox chapel, where only three seats were set up-for the three onetime monarchs among them. While Bulgaria's ex-Queen loanna and Albania's ex-Queen Geraldine democratically declined to use theirs, Farouk sat down in lonely, perspiring splendor...