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...Well," muttered one British reporter in the midst of this unruffled scene of royal business-as-usual, "that wasn't much of a reunion." But back home and in the U.S., the headlines were redolent with the heady scent of orange blossoms dispelling the noisome rumors of rift. "After 124 days and 5 hours, they are TOGETHER AGAIN," blared Britain's Empire News. "THA-A-T'S BETTER," purred London's Sunday Pictorial...
...that the Duke of Edinburgh had more than a passing interest in an unnamed woman and was meeting her regularly in the apartment of the court photographer." By London's teatime the Sun's sensational story was splashed across U.S. newspaper front pages: REPORT QUEEN, DUKE IN RIFT OVER PARTY GIRL...
...casserole of gossip were some tiny chunks of fact: the royal couple had not been together since mid-October when the Duke went on cruise; no royal child has been born since Elizabeth became Queen. In the teeth of the storm, royal spokesmen issued a firm denial of any rift between the Queen and her consort. This week Elizabeth plans to fly to Lisbon to join her husband for two days before they pay a state visit to Portugal. Soon the headlines were foreseeing a second honeymoon. In preparation the Duke shaved off the reddish, roguish beard he had cultivated...
...parliamentary scandal with charges that two Bundestag Deputies were corrupt; they were not reelected. Later, before the 1953 elections, Der Spiegel charged bribe-taking in the right-wing Bayernpartei; all 17 party Deputies lost their seats in Bonn. Last year it broke the story of Prince Bernhard's rift with Queen Juliana, of The Netherlands over Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25). The magazine's most sensational exposé was a 1952 story charging that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom it has bitterly opposed, had accepted favors from French secret service agents. Adenauer dropped defamation charges when...
Bumbling Officials. Only two months ago the Mirror had delivered its own prognosis of the press-palace rift in a three-part series that reproached the royal family for "aloofness." Chided the Mirror: "This should have been the age when kings mixed with commoners, when pomp shaved off its whiskers and came down to the people. Unhappily, this is still the age of golden cobwebs...