I never met him, but I did meet Mrs. Michener (wife of Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada from 1967 to 1974). She had come to our house in Fredericton in a shiny black motorcade that parked on Grey Street to purchase my parents’ art and she was in our kitchen drinking tea with Mum when I walked in, all grubby from the horse barn at the old racetrack across town. Mum said, in a rather whispery, pleading tone: “Anny, this is Her Excellency” and Mrs. Michener, impeccable in her belted camel-hair coat, pink lipstick and coiffed hair that didn’t move, stood up and graciously said: “You may kiss me” (she may have held out her hand) and I recall being absolutely terrified and tearing from the room.
Christopher Plummer shone on stage and screen in the shadow of Sound of Music
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