On a Lausanne railway station platform last week there was a tender parting. The goodbyes were perhaps not forever. Teddybear-tall (6 ft. 2 in.), shy King Michael of Rumania kissed his girl goodbye. The girl was long-legged Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.
Cousins (both are great-grandchildren of Denmark's King Christian IX), they had met in London at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Since then, for 28 days they had dallied in London and Lausanne under the sympathetic eye of Michael's Mama, Queen Helen, while Michael shyly pursued his quest. At 24, Nan, as her family calls her, is a...
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