Word: queen elizabeth, the queen mother
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...moment, the trip was a fright. As Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 65, rode into Christchurch, New Zealand, a shot cracked somewhere behind the crowd. Police raced through the neighborhood until they found four young boys playing with a rifle that had discharged, slightly wounding a housewife in the crowd. Unruffled, the Queen Mum went trout fishing in Lake Wanaka, catching nothing, despite her fine fly-fisher's wrist. She did set some sort of local record as the only angler who ever waded in wearing hip boots, sports jacket, and a large string of pearls...
...gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon of Her Majesty's Body Guard followed by the Queen's Bodyguard in scarlet Tudor tunics. To a final blast from the silver trumpets, Queen Elizabeth herself entered in gold coat and matching feathered toque...
...would claim," said the Queen from her cherry-pink and gold armchair at the head of the flower-festooned hall, "that Parliament has maintained an unblemished record in its evolution." Nonetheless, Elizabeth pointed out, "its importance to us today is that it stumbled upon and gave expression to ideas and principles which have been recognized and maintained with growing conviction ever since." All the same, the mother of parliaments has brought forth some odd offspring. Among the 21 Commonwealth ministers present, nearly a third came from countries such as Tanzania, Ghana and Malawi, where democracy is about as real...
...tireless party worker, she has ad dressed envelopes and rung doorbells just like anyone else. In 1954, while managing a losing congressional cam paign for Anthony B. Akers in New York's 17th Congressional District, she slipped away from a lavish reception for Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, changed to street clothes in her Rolls-Royce while riding to Democratic headquarters on election night. In 1956 she headed the Volunteers for Stevenson committee in New York; in 1958 she ran another losing campaign for Akers; in 1960 she was deputy chairman of the Citizens Committee for Kennedy...
...began wandering. Pretty soon he spotted the mud-covered straw that was spread around because of the rain and got a great idea. He tossed a handful of the gooey stuff at a kind-looking lady standing near by. The kind-looking lady turned out to be Queen Mother Elizabeth. She was surprised and laughed politely, but she didn't move away. So he threw a couple more handfuls. Then someone stopped him, and Charles Race had to think of something else...