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...largesse was just a trifle embarrassing since the Queen got a little bit better than she gave. Her official gifts to her hosts in Kuwait, Bah rain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman were sterling silver salvers engraved with a picture of the royal yacht Britannia. The Guardian estimated that the salvers probably cost between $4,000 and $6,000 apiece, adding somewhat cattily that Britain's "balance of payments on the transaction looks extremely healthy." Still, as the paper observed, "it's the thought that counts...
...Britannia may no longer rule the waves, but Prince Charles is giving it a go. The sea-loving Prince of Wales has scuba dived, handled a racing sloop and skippered a minesweeper. For his most recent aquatic adventure, Charles, 29, tried wind surfing off the chilly Isle of Wight. Barefooted, he tried to balance on a sailing surfboard but landed again and again in the drink. What upset the royal balance? Harrumphed a British surfing expert: "On a bad day even the Prince of England doesn't stand a chance in hell of staying...
...Company, and John Ayldon, who joined more than a decade ago, could hardly be better as the two earls engaged to the same girl. Shovelton has a lovely unforced tenor voice, and Ayldon's baritone beautifully belts out "When Britain Really Ruled," a parody of patriotic songs like "Rule Britannia." In their spoken Act II discussion they capture to perfection Gilbert's portrait of Victorian dim-witted stuffiness. They are fine, too, in the sure-fire trio "He Who Shies," as they try to catch the lithe-limbed Lord Chancellor indulging in undignified capers (including even a touch...
Before the royal yacht Britannia sailed through the morning mist of Belfast Lough, violence had already flared up. In Londonderry, the I.R.A. Provisionals claimed credit for a sniper's wounding of two soldiers, while in another Provo attack, a Belfast police reservist was shot in the leg and shoulder. Later, tensions mounted dramatically when a teen-age Catholic boy was shot and killed by an army patrol after he twice refused an order to stop throwing gasoline bombs into a lumberyard. The I.R.A. retaliated by shooting down a soldier guarding a bomb-disposal unit. The bloodshed, said an I.R.A...
...note a different sort of anniversary. A year ago last week, Catholics Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan founded the so-called Peace People's Movement, which has attracted mass support from both Catholics and Protestants. The Queen pointedly invited the two women to a reception aboard the Britannia. Other royal events: a slow cruise on the floodlit yacht up the coast, which was crowded with onlookers, and an investiture ceremony at Hillsborough Castle at which she bestowed honors on 18 of her subjects...