Milestones: Dec. 14, 1962

Born. To King Simeon II, 25, King of Bulgaria, who was deposed from his throne at the age of nine by the Communists after World War II, and Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, 26, jet-haired light of Madrid's aristocratic high life: their first child, a boy; in Madrid.

Divorced. By the Countess of Coventry, 28, the former "Mimi" Medart, a St. Louis restaurateur's playgirl daughter: the eleventh Earl of Coventry, 28, an ex-Grenadier Guards lieutenant whose family motto is "Candidly and Constantly"; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after seven years of marriage, one son; in...

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