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She has a fresh approach to her duties
and a sense of spontaneity that has broken all the Old Guard
rules of royalty and the British love her for it
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With a shy smile and modest wave. Princess Alexandra returns
the greetings of crowds that cheer her at public appearances.
Familii Weekly. June 5. 1560
Her serene Highness Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga
Christabel Windsor picked up the champagne bottle
and swung it high above her head, then whacked it with
most unroyal vigor against the bow of the aircraft carrier
H.M.S. Jaguar. The bottle smashed to smithereens, but the
ship stood still.
In the horrified silence that followed, a voice from below
yelled, "Give 'er a shove, yer 'ighness." Before the officials
knew what was happening, Alexandra chuckled, leaned far
over the rail of the launching platform, and gave the drip
ping bow a push.
The carrier miraculously slid down the ways. And Prin
cess Alexandra of Kent, then 21, came away from her first
big solo public function nicely unaware that the eyes of a
curious and enchanted British public were upon her.
Since that time, unaided by press-agentry and mainly due
to a naturally vivacious and unpredictable personality, she
has moved slowly into the spotlight. Today, at 24, she often
finds herself called upon to act on behalf of the British royal
family (she is a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Prin
cess Margaret).
Perhaps the most amazing thing about Alexandra is the
fact' that in a country where royalty's every move is followed
with the kind of fanatic devotion reserved for movie stars
in America, she has only recently been "discovered."
One reason is her unusual upbringing. She is the only
daughter and the second of three children of the Duchess of
Kent and the late Duke, who was killed in a flying accident
when Alexandra was five. (Alexandra's eldest brother is
the present Duke.) The Duchess of Kent kept her daughter
firmly under wraps, most unroyal ones at that, during her
entire childhood.
Alexandra was the first British princess to attend board
ing school. Later, she went to finishing school in Paris.
There she received no special concessions but lived as mod
estly as her fellow students. Of Alexandra's finishing-school
days, her headmistress has said: "She was quite a charming
girl but such a prankster, you understand; she never could
attend to her lessons."
After finishing school, Alexandra spent six months as a
student nurse in London's Hospital for Sick Children before
being groomed for her royal role. In 1955, she was given a
lady-in-waiting, and her activities began to be reported in
the Court Circular. But because Princess Margaret's ill
starred romance with Peter Townsend was dominating the
headlines, Alexandra still escaped the full newspaper cov
erage given royal activities.
Certainly, Princess Margaret has always held the lion's
share of the spotlight, and she always will hold a good
deal of it. But now that she is married, it seems likely that
Alexandra, the only unattached British princess besides the
Queen's 8-year-old daughter Anne, will take over many of
Margaret's duties.
Happily, she has the joie de vivre and the flair that runs
in the British royal family: the ability to
invest each event with the sparkle of
romance and the sense of grand occasion.
But she has combined it with an unpre
dictability and spontaneity all her own. As
one reporter put it: "She has already es
tablished an entirely new pattern of be
havior for royalty."
Take her Far Eastern tour last fall.
Everything was against her at the outset.
She was the youngest princess ever to
tackle a royal tour alone. She had had little
previous experience. She had almost ho
advance publicity. She was going to spend
most of her time with the fiercely inde
pendent and critical Australians. Worst of
all, she went in place of the popular Prin
cess Margaret.
But no sooner had she landed than Alex
andra set about cracking conventions as
casually as nuts. As she got into her car
after the first official luncheon, she sat on
the top hat of the Governor of Queensland,
Sir Henry Able Smith, and squashed it flat
as a pancake. Officials and onlookers gasped
but Alexandra gaily waved the battered
headgear in salutation to the crowd as she
drove away.
After that, it was one success after an
other. In Canberra, for instance, "the Bobby
Princess," as the Australians immediately
named her, attended another luncheon, this
one with an imaginative guest list (drawn
by ballot at her request) of stenographers,
farmers, clerks, etc. The meal began in a
tense hush until Alexandra turned to Aus
tralia's Prime Minister Menzies and said
audibly, "Oh, this dreadful silence; what
can we do about it?" The general laughter
broke the ice, and the luncheon was a re
sounding success from then on.
Since Princess Margaret's marriage, Alexandra
furnishes royal patronage to such good causes
as seeing-eye dogs and gymnastic societies.
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On the Brisbane River, Alexandra in
sisted on taking the wheel of the royal
launch as they passed through the docks,
then tooted deafening blasts on the whistle
in response to the ocean liners' and tugs'
sirens. At a ball in Melbourne, she danced
indefatigably until 2 a.m. (royalty usually
leave at midnight) and enchanted her hosts
by cuddling young Koala bears on the lap
of her dazzling ball gown.
It is not surprising that Alexandra was
given a send-oft usually reserved for reign
ing monarchs, nor that she received a thun
derous welcome on her return home.
The Queen has been delighted with her
work, and it was a tribute to Alexan-'
dra's prestige with the royal family that she
was one of the five godparents at the chris
tening of Prince Andrew, Elizabeth's third
child, born last February.
Alexandra lives in London at her moth
er's apartments at Kensington Palace (pro
vided by the Queen). She is very close to
her brother, the Duke of Kent, and shares
his exuberant high spirits and sense of fun.
But she doesn't have the wild streak he
showed a few years ago when he wrecked
three cars and attended parties that made
headlines after ending in brawls.
So far, Alexandra has shown no signs of
romantic attachments (though the British
columnist who predicted that Margaret
would marry in . 1960 has also predicted
Alexandra will marry in 1961 and has de
scribed a European king not unlike King
Baudouin of Belgium).
Whatever the future holds, Princess
Alexandra's genuine enjoyment of her du
ties and her irrepressible personality have
made her Britain's newest royal love.
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