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n/Page M0,1| features Battalion/Page 3B February 10, 1983 British royalty reopens ‘family album’ to public United Press International LONDON — Queen Eli zabeth invites you to Bucking ham Palace to meet her royal ancestors. True, the Queen’s Gallery is isolated from the rest of the palace. True, none of her ances tors is there in the flesh. But the new show called “Kings and Queens” is a family snapshot album on the grandest possible scale — a procession of every British monarch for more than 500 years. It’s a short course on the Brit ish royal line, told in paintings that are sometimes artistic mas terpieces. It’s also a chance for satisfying gossip about the kind of people who wear crowns. Queen Elizabeth I, for inst ance. Some portraits here match the popular legend of the “Vir gin Queen,” the dazzling monarch of subjects like Shakes peare and Marlowe, Raleigh and Drake. But there also is a portrait of an unsmiling girl, solemn de spite her bejewelled gown, no more impressive than any other girl of 14. That, too, is the first Elizabeth. Just beneath hangs the ma ture queen, crowned and scep- tered, striding in all her majesty onto meadows below Windsor Castle — and finding there the goddesses Juno, Pallas and Venus with Cupid. Clearly Elizabeth is about to rout these pagans with the lash of her tongue. Before photography, such portraits were mass produced for embassies abroad, for gov ernors of subject territories, for swapping with fellow monarchs. Some also were used to arrange marriages — sometimes with disastrous results. Since travel was difficult, King George IV, then Prince of Wales, exchanged portraits with his intended bride, Caroline of Brunswick. When they finally met, George instantly called for a large brandy. Caroline de clared that George was “very fat” and “nothing like as hand some as his portrait.” The show includes a painting of their 1795 wedding. The marriage lasted less than a year. Sir Oliver Millar, surveyor of the queen’s pictures, called the show “a display of royal portraits which for quality, variety and range of mood could not be matched from the resources of any other collection.” The collection is one of the biggest and most valuable in the world. Most of it never has been seen outside royal circles. But some years ago, with her own funds, Queen Elizabeth converted a World War II bomb-damaged chapel attached to Buckingham Palace into a gal lery, which includes a single room plus balcony. The gallery was closed for 10 months to install new air condi tioning, but now all the famous names are grouped to re-open it — Henry VIII, humpbacked Richard III (“Crookback”), Mary Queen of Scots, King George III seemingly watching the American colonies melt away, down to telling sketches of Queen Mother Elizabeth and Prince Philip. What’s Cookin’ At Ken’s? Signs of early spring photo by Jane Hollingsworth m lineot Calvin Woods enjoys strawberry ice cream during the few pretty hours of good weather this week. Woods is a civil engineering professor. Quirks in the News ige paiifi' le times eclon)ii s is peii lence o( less." atients ir nornull criminaii nnot is well*! ferencel United Press International ■tain MOSCOW — There’s no- ir voice Iiliing wrong with left-handed therei!®iildren S o leave them alone, a ionoft ^Soviet newspaper told parents >n andpBho were found to have press- ■recl their “abnormal’’ children ils on ' pinto using their right hands. 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