Word: victoria
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...important thing for a second-grade teacher is getting across the essence of addition and subtraction. But of late, willowy Social Registerite Victoria Thompson, a 1960 Radcliffe graduate who teaches well-scrubbed little girls at Manhattan's exclusive Chapin School, finds her problems multiplying, what with all those reporters nosing around. One newshen nabbed her last week, but Vickie muttered, "I can't talk about that" and hurried away. About what? Well, what that happy band of Rocky boosters on the Coast keeps gloating about: they say that on June 10 Victoria will marry Dr. James Slater Murphy...
...Sutherland is Donna Anna, crying vengeance on Don Giovanni at the top of her voice. The other reigning sopranos in this international exposition are Sweden's Birgit Nilsson singing Beethoven, France's Regine Crespin singing Wagner, Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Mozart, and Spain's Victoria de los Angeles singing Verdi and Gounod...
...month after learning that his son, then 20, was having a fling with an actress ("You must not, you dare not be lost," he wrote to Edward). A year later "Bertie" was married to Denmark's Alexandra, "the most beautiful Princess in Europe," and shortly thereafter Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds withdrew into almost total seclusion. Bertie was left with an income of roughly $550,000 a year, no tutors, and a great deal of free time...
...that when he descended on a country house (usually without his wife but with a retinue of 12 to 16 attendants), a wise hostess juggled bedrooms so that the Prince would be within convenient reach of his current favorite. At his coronation in Westminster Abbey after the death of Victoria in 1901, he ordered the construction of a special box (popularly referred to as "the King's Loose Box") for his past and present mistresses. And what impressed him most about the coronation ceremony, to which all the crowned heads of Europe had been invited, was the glimpse...
...collections of unpublished papers, is most convincing when he is discussing the intricacies of Edwardian social life. He is on less firm ground when he tries to demonstrate that Bertie helped shape his country's foreign policy in the first decade of the century. After the death of Victoria, who never trusted her son with Foreign Office dispatches, Bertie became an ardent practitioner of personal diplomacy, paying "unofficial" visits to the capitals of Europe, where he practiced his charm on rulers, most of whom were his relatives. Magnus credits him with at least an assist in the rapprochement with...