Word: abbeys
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Members of the Chorus of the Boston Cecilia, of which Gould had been a member, opened the ceremony with an anthem composed for the 1882 internment of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey...
...Pastore's "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero and Tony's mother Livia, after the death of actress Nancy Marchand, who played her). When HBO released an Annie Leibovitz promotional photo of the cast (see opening spread), the New York Post scrutinized it for clues as if it were the cover of Abbey Road. (Why is Paulie wearing a white suit? Is he with the angels?) But when it comes to secrets--down to admitting whether they appear in a certain episode--the cast members follow a strict code of omerta. Bracco gives a variation on the standard answer: "If you're gonna...
...bank online." Although the four British banks are called pure plays, they have good family connections. Three of them were created by brand-name institutions, though they maintain entirely separate operations: Smile is owned by Co-operative Bank, Intelligent Finance is part of HBOS and Cahoot is owned by Abbey National. Egg is a child of insurance giant Prudential. Some of these may soon find themselves operating desks within their parents' branches. Says Head: "As far as Smile is concerned, [branches are] an option for the future." Emma Byrne, an Egg spokeswoman, notes that Zebank will offer its services...
Queen, however, was not a role she coveted. A persistent rumor has it that the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth rejected Prince Albert's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 13th year of a quiet marriage and the parents of two girls when Albert's older brother Edward VIII gave up his crown to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorce. Albert thereupon became King George VI and Elizabeth his Queen Consort...
...flowery messsages from the public on cellophane-wrapped bouquets; of long lines filing past the coffin lying in state in the magnificent medieval Westminster Hall. Britain dedicated last week to paying its respects to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother before the final farewell of her funeral in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday...