The Leisure Class

It was official. After the rumors and the denials, Aly Khan announced in Deauville that his wife, Princess Margarita (known to millions as Rita Hayworth), was indeed expecting a baby.

In Estoril, Portugal, Displaced Personage Carol Hohenzollern, 55, exiled ex-King of Rumania, ceremoniously repeated the nuptial vows he took at her "deathbed" two years ago with trim, redhaired, green-eyed Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, 52. In a full-dress Greek Orthodox service he made his uncrowned queen of 25 years the crownless Princess Elena.

Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank.

Fun-loving Princess Margaret marked her 19th birthday with a tea party at Balmoral Castle in Scotland while the Empire outdid itself in showering her with gifts and congratulatory messages, forwarded from London by helicopter.

In Italy, Ingrid Bergman finished the last scene of her picture for Director Roberto Rossellini, joined him in a champagne toast to its success, then made ready for her announced retirement. Observers noted that changes had come over the volcanic isle of Stromboli, the film's major setting: village belles were wearing their hair in the windblown Bergman manner, children were prattling in English, most of the natives were moviestruck. Like Ingrid herself, Stromboli would never be quite the same after her visit.

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