Word: angus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tingling silence, Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy stood before the Archbishop of Canterbury to recite their marriage vows. In the hearing of some 200 million TV droppers-in around the world, the princess promised in a soft, firm voice "to love, cherish, and to obey" her commoner husband. When they had knelt at the altar and signed the register, the Ogil-vys marched merrily back into the pale afternoon. As they drove off in a crystal coach, bagpipers skirled a pibroch, and the great bells pealed...
...husband has no title and works for a living, but Princess Alexandra, 26, was hardly rewriting Cinderella. Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, is the handsome, well-heeled second son of the Earl of Airlie, whose ancient Scottish clan (motto: "To the End") won its English title for supporting Charles I in the Civil War-and lost it for 81 years after fighting with Bonnie Prince Charlie against Alexandra's ancestor, George II. After Eton, Oxford and the Scots Guards, Ogilvy joined the investment firm of Harold Drayton, a self-made London multimillionaire whose interests Ogilvy represents (for $300 weekly...
London, already astir with preparations for the April wedding of Princess Alexandra of Kent, 26, to Angus Ogilvy, 34, second son of the Earl of Airlie, began to bubble in earnest as effervescent Alexandra announced that her chief bridesmaid for the ceremony in Westminster Abbey will be Princess Anne, 12. The couple's gift list, filed at Harrods of Knightsbridge as a handy guide for friends, indicates that they would welcome, among other things, bathroom scales, a portable barbecue, an onyx cigarette box, a toaster, Swedish decanters...
...soon overextended himself. But, with superb ingenuity and timing, he formed Argus so that he could sell its stock to raise money to pay off his loans. As partners, he took in some prestigious names: W. Eric Phillips, head of the Duplate Canada subsidiary of Pittsburgh Plate Glass; John Angus McDougald. chairman of Avco of Canada; and M. Wallace McCutcheon. then chair man of National Life Assurance of Canada.* "Taylor is the idea man." explains Phillips, "but if he didn't have us as a balance wheel, he would go broke...
...Britain's Princess Margaret and her cousin Princess Alexandra, who soon will marry Scottish Businessman Angus Ogilvy. princesses have begun to look more favorably at kind hearts with no coronets. "What interests me is not the crown, but what's beneath the crown." says France's Princess Isabelle. daughter of the French Pretender, the Count of Paris. A commoner should of course have money. Sweden's royal family ruled British Playboy Robin Douglas-Home (nephew of Foreign Secretary Lord Home) "unsuitable" as a consort for Princess Margaretha because of his low income...