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...moment experienced before by only 52 men and six women in the 1,100-year history of England's throne had come to the fresh-faced yet stately young mistress of Buckingham Palace. In storybook raiment, with a storybook prince by her side, she stepped down to the courtyard and entered a coach of scarlet and gold...
Homage. The Queen sat motionless, her twin scepters held upright, her brown tresses peeping out from the rim of the lustrous Crown. From the choir rose the anthem, Be Strong and of Good Courage, and Elizabeth II, escorted by her nobles, moved to the high throne...
...authentic ones. Gorgeous Heroine Anna Notaras, who is a sort of Greek Joan of Arc with painted toenails, is the dubbed-in daughter of history's Grand Duke Lukas Notaras. Her would-be lover, John Angelos, another Waltari creation, is depicted as the rightful heir to the Byzantine throne...
Born. To Angela Estree Lyssod Dowding Lascelles, 34, onetime London actress, and the Hon. Gerald David Lascelles, 28, jazz-loving, auto-racing first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; their first child, a son, who is 14th in line of succession to the British throne; in London...
George needed all his training in dutifulness to face his first political crisis, the curbing of the House of Lords, which met him almost as soon as he took the throne after the death of his father, Edward VII, in 1910. When the Lords balked at abolishing their veto powers to please the Liberals, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the King exactly what he must do: threaten to pack the Lords with 500 new peers. Inwardly kicking and bucking, George V did exactly as he was told-as the British constitutional system seemed to demand. And the House of Lords...