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On their global good-will tour, Thailand's jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his charming Queen Sirikit arrived in Scandinavia, made an instant hit with the populace. A highlight of their visit was an escorted tour of the old theater in Sweden's summer palace in Drottningho'm. Their escort: Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf, whose eyes sparkled a reflection of Sirikit's exotic beauty. In Rome last week, Sirikit wowed local newsmen, who all played eulogistic variations on the theme of "the most beautiful Queen in the world." No slouch in winning popularity for himself, Bhumibol got high marks for his jazz musicianship.
Britain's second Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, Richard Lloyd George, 71, inherited the title but little else from his famed father, lusty Welshman David Lloyd George, Britain's Liberal Prime Minister in World War I. Richard George ran away from it all at an advanced age, spent a decade in the U.S. as "a good workman doing, I hope, a number of different jobs well." He went home to England in 1958. In London's sporty Sunday The People, Dick George (as he was known to his U.S. acquaintances) began telling about father last week in a serialization of a forthcoming biography. His introduction to Papa was enough to stop Big Ben, bells, cogs and counterweights. Gist of it all: the P.M. was just as active in the boudoir as in Parliament. By Richard Lloyd George's count, his sire had 18 mistresses over almost 50 years, and by them had sired four illegitimate children-Observes the son: by the time Lloyd George got around to marrying at 25, he had already acquired "a slightly scandalous reputation as a philanderer."