Word: marlborough
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Britain and Northern Ireland, Elizabeth II does her Commonwealth job. She has assigned Marlborough House as a meeting place for Commonwealth representatives, and when a conference is held in London, she invites each Commonwealth Prime Minister at least once to a private audience. At her coronation, Elizabeth wore a special gift from Commonwealth members: gold armils, or bracelets, a royal emblem that had not been used in a coronation since the 16th century...
...interest in the 18th century has led him to edit a portable Boswell and Jonson, and to write such amusing and entertaining books as Kings and Desperate Men and Marlborough's Dutchess: a study in worldliness. "I suppose initially it was just that I knew a great deal too little about all these people; and they turned out to be rather fascinating individuals. By the time I wrote the 'study in worldliness' I was already very interested in the period, in the Dutchess and what she represented, and in the Duke, her husband; and not being a military expert...
Spelling alone, however, cannot account for the duke's strategy, whose motivation can only be guessed. The subject: English history. "At Blenheim Marlborough directed his atacks at the right wing, where were stationed the most delectable French troops...
...MARLBOROUGH'S DUCHESS, by Louis Kronenberger. A topnotch biography, continuously rich with the shine of a fabulous period, provides a full-dress portrait of an 18th century woman whom no one could underestimate until she overrated herself...
Kronenberger is on a year's leave of absence from Brandeis University, where he is Sophie Tucker Professor of Theatre Arts. He has been an editor of Time since 1938 and is the author of the recently published Marlborough's Duchess...