Word: windsors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Once upon a time, princesses automatically married princes or other noblemen, as surely as knights rescued damsels in distress. Not any more - not even British princesses. Last week, Buckingham Palace announced "with the greatest pleasure" the engagement of Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, 22, to Lieut. Mark Phillips, 24, a hand some commoner in the Queen's Dragoon Guards...
Wherever the couple sets up house, Britons will be waiting to see if young Mark can bridle some of his bride's temperament. Though Anne can charm, she can also chafe. As one British court-watcher puts it: "She has imperious moods when that pendulous Windsor lower lip droops and the arrogance of centuries emerges." She has never enjoyed performing royal duties as much as her elder brother Prince Charles (who remains the world's most eligible royal single). She makes little attempt to disguise boredom. "I'm an expert on opening Kleenex factories and such...
Princess Anne can be an absolute darling, but "she has imperious moods when that pendulous Windsor lower lip droops and the arrogance of centuries emerges." Her Royal Highness was taking a drubbing from Punch, the British humor magazine, which wished she would let go with a "bit of divilment." As it is, Anne shares a chilling trait with Elizabeth: "She has her mother's look, which can freeze at 20 paces...
...mauve-and-gold plate propped up in the Bois de Boulogne drawing room of the Duchess of Windsor, 76, was the first of a run of 1,000 Coalport china plates commemorating her late husband. Inscribed on its back is an elegiac quotation from Sir Winston Churchill: "In this prince there were discerned qualities of courage, of simplicity, of sympathy, and, above all, of sincerity; qualities rare and precious which might have made his reign glorious in the annals of this ancient monarchy...
...atmosphere at Windsor Castle could have been, to say the least, a little strained. As house guests for the night, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip had invited Australia's forceful, independent-minded Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and his equally outspoken wife Margaret (TIME, March 26). It was the Queen's first encounter with Whitlam since he was elected last December on a mandate that included snipping some of Australia's ties to both the monarchy and the mother country...