Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grim story has been told before, but never with such sweep and grieving comprehension. Part of the reason is new information, part is the skill and lineage of the author. Thomas Pakenham's mother, the Countess of Longford, is the biographer of Victoria and Wellington. His sister is Antonia Fraser, biographer of Cromwell, Mary Queen of Scots and Charles II. Pakenham was able to prowl the great houses of Britain in search of long-lost letters, papers and diaries, took time to learn Dutch and Afrikaans, and early in his eight years of research recorded the memories...
...idea for the show, says Producer Leonard Katzman, was to imagine that Romeo and Juliet were playing just-pretend in that tomb and suddenly found themselves in Dallas. Bobby is Romeo, and his Juliet is Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal), the daughter of a man Jock doublecrossed during his wildcatting days. Bobby brings her home to Southfork, and J.R. tries everything but cyanide to get rid of her. He is afraid that she will give Big Daddy - sorry, Jock - his first grandson and thus persuade the old man to make Bobby his heir. His tactics fail, but when Pam does become...
...library, workers in the first-floor museum area were carefully positioning J.F.K.'s rocking chair in a re-creation of the Oval Office. A replica of the large presidential desk was being moved from a storeroom; the original desk, still in the White House, was given by Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. On the library's desk will rest the coconut shell on which Naval Lieutenant Kennedy carved a call for help after PT-109 was sunk by a Japanese destroyer off Guadalcanal in 1943. Under the supervision of former Kennedy Aide and Curator...
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...