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...parents, though they never returned to the U.S., firmly refused to think of themselves as expatriates. The children, too, still consider themselves Americans. Papa, unable to get bourbon, made his mint juleps with French brandy, sold U.S. cottonseed oil with enthusiasm and regularly leafed through Southern history. As for Mamma, nothing cheered her so much as an American visitor. Writes daughter Anne: "She felt herself to be an island around which surged forty million incurious French. . . . When she spoke of herself as a Southerner, these foreigners understood her to mean South America and that was a bad start, so Mamma...
Michael's father-in-law-to-be, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, fell down stairs in Copenhagen and broke...
...Queen Elizabeth, en route to New York. Before sailing he committed himself on another question. "Anne and I," said Michael, "hope to be married soon in Denmark." But even that plan presented complications. By week's end there was bad news for the hopeful young king and his Bourbon princess, who was staying with her mother in Paris. From Rome, Papal Secretary Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, the Vatican's expert on Soviet-dominated Europe, announced that Pope Pius had refused Roman Catholic Princess Anne permission to marry her Orthodox king unless both agreed to raise all their children...
Thus-last week began the third act of a romantic Balkan operetta which (thus far) had carried Rumania's 26-year-old King Michael and pretty Princess Anne Antoinette Franchise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma through a lyrical, whirlwind courtship amidst the glitter of a British royal wedding and the dark second act of a Communist coup d'état in Bucharest...
...very much interested in ... the 6 foot 2 inch teddy bear to which TIME [Dec. 29] compared former King Michael. ... Is there more than one? And just how long are the legs of Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma? SAMUEL C. MONSON New York City...