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still pretty good sob-sister
meat. Then even before she
arrived the public had her
engaged to Sweden's middle
aged Prince Bertil.
The Prince. who's quite un-
used to such goings on, was
in a swivel and never did quite
recover his aplomb. Often his
niece, the Princess Marga-
retha, has said he's the IA
vorite of her male relatives
(Elizabeth's Philip is far down
on her lisD. It's we'll known
that Bertil is charming and,
for a Swede, gay; but his
brand of jauntiness had never
been tried. With not so much
practice he's not as resilient
as Princess Margaret Of
England.
Denied Engagement
With her sisters approval
she quickly subscribed to a
denial of an engagement with
Bertil Mere weeks ago she
was busy denying an engage
ment with the younger brother
of Queen Frederika of Greece.
The royal market in denials
is booming. This one made
four since and including the
remuneration of Peter Town
send last winter. That's four
IN only eight months and
these are the only four times
in British history that the
royal family has officially rec
ognized public gossip.
No sooner had they snuffed
out the Bertil-Margaret ru-
mors than up f1ared the case
of the faith healer of Hol-
land, whereupon Prince Bern
hard of the Netherlands was
abruptly showed on stage.
Royalty Keeps Serene
AS president of the Interna-
tional Equestrian Federation
he'd only just arrived for the
Games but suddenly he was
the weeks star. So things
stood toward the end of the
week when competitors and
royalty celebrated with a gala
ball Elizabeth, Philip, and
Margaret of England, Gustav,
Louise, and Bertil of Sweden
plus assorted Swedish prin-
cesses, and Hollands consort
Bernhard whirled and laughed
with visiting riding teams and
the local gentry.
From the sidelines a specta-
tor gaped. How can they all
look so serene" he wondered
in awe. when everyone knows
the press is raking their per-
sonalities raw?" They're quite
used to it, yawned an amateur
historian. "it's a matter Of
habit with royalty. For hun
dreds of years they've looked at
one another each time they
meet as if it we're the last time
and they ask themselves whose
head will roll next?' Nova
days the hacking is done with
words not axes and guillo-
tines"
Bernhard Proves Hardy
One Of the things dug UP
about Bernhard is that Walter
Reed Hospital once gave him
only six or seven years to live
because of a badly healed gap
in his vertebrate. That was
in So but two years later
British doctors gave him more
hope.
Of course it was inevitable
that an heir for Monaco
would be predicted for Janu-
airy. This is an easy game
for one of these days some
ones baseless guess will prove
correct. However, he who
claimed to have learned the
HAPPY news" from a doctor
who treated the Princess
Grace must never have heard
that doctors don't tell their
patients secrets. Now that
she's Grace of Monaco she has
the full backing Of a state to
keep to herself the secrets of
her person that even Grace
Kelly despised revealing.
Carnival Deplored
Neither she nor Prince
Rainier invited the torrent Of
trivia that accompanied their
wedding and scandalized and
tantalized the world. AS re-
ported in this space soon
thereafter, a private audience
with the Pope was Cancelled
because his holiness did not
wish to contribute further to
what the Vatican's newspaper
described as "a carnival"
The papal audience had
been most reverently antici-
pated part of their honey
moon plans. For a couple as
devout as Rainier and Grace
nothing could have been as
crushing as to have it cam
celed. 1t was so pathetic that
even a columnist is forced to
admit the need of a new
freedom " How about a
freedom from the press" for
instance?
Alternating Public
BY refusing to refund the
deposit on a necklace intended
as a wedding present for the
new Princess, a French jew
eler is alternating his public.
The National Council of Mo-