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...trying to fulfill their self-assigned task of "arousing the nation," Monday Clubbers have, among other causes, protested the dropping of Rule, Britannia from BBC concerts in London's Royal Albert Hall and ardently supported the loyalists of Ulster. But the club's warmest concerns have been to rally support for Ian Smith's breakaway white-supremacist regime in Rhodesia and to argue against immigration of blacks and Asians to Britain from Commonwealth countries...
...RULE BRITANNIA by DAPHNE DU MAURIER 335 pages. Doubleday...
...Mary (now a dry-docked tourist attraction in Long Beach, Calif.) or the first Queen Elizabeth (which sank outside Hong Kong harbor last January, the victim of suspected arson). Still, the Q.E. 2 retained, in its original design, at least some of the proud aura of the days when Britannia ruled the waves. But a $4½ million face-lifting, unveiled last week, seems to have turned the only Queen still afloat into a bit of a tart...
WAVING a scrap of paper over his head, British Home Secretary Robert Carr rose to speak in the House of Commons. "Message from the Queen, signed by her Majesty's own hand!" he shouted. The paper, which Carr had brought by boat and plane from the royal yacht Britannia, on which Queen Elizabeth II had been cruising off the west coast of Scotland, was a declaration of a national state of emergency. It was the fourth such declaration that Britain's Tory government has had to seek since coming to power two years ago. The cause this time...
...heads have saved themselves more than once by deploying their secret weapon, the Royal Glare. A case in point was what Australia's former Prime Minister John Gorton describes as "one of the greatest fun evenings I can remember." On a cruise off Queensland on the royal yacht Britannia, "people decided that everyone else ought to be thrown in the water," says Gorton. Prince Philip was thrown in, and then Princess Anne. I was sitting beside the Queen. I was about to throw her in, but I looked at her and there was something in the way she looked...