Word: mountbatten
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...Donovan award is given by the Veterans of the OSS, the agency's alumni association, to people who exemplify Donovan's virtues, a category broad enough to include Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Apollo 11 astronauts and Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois. This year's winner is Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a hero of the French Resistance who is now president of the French National Assembly...
That sounded like Rude Britannia they were humming in Chicago last week. Princess Margaret, visiting the city, paused at a Gold Coast penthouse party to chitchat with Mayor Jane Byrne. Byrne noted that she had recently been in England for the funeral of Margaret's cousin Lord Mountbatten, who had been killed...
...Lord Mountbatten was not Victoria's last surviving great-grandson as you said in the story on his funeral [Sept. 17]. Another one is still very much alive, and he even wears a crown. I know, because he happens to be my King, Olav V of Norway, son of Maud, daughter of King Edward VII, who was Victoria...
...Lord Mountbatten may be gone, but the sun hasn't set on great-grandsons of Queen Victoria: surviving in Portugal is Don Juan de Borbón, father of King Juan Carlos of Spain...
...dastardly murder of Lord Mountbatten [Sept. 10] and his 15-year-old grandson has shocked the civilized world. The act only serves to set back any real solution to Ireland's problems...