Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...svelte, silver-clad Di might have wanted to use the stoppers elsewhere. For weeks, curious Britons have been chattering about whether the Princess is pregnant again. London's tabloid Daily Mirror reported that the Princess had announced her happy condition at a family dinner in Balmoral Castle. But Buckingham Palace has maintained a proper silence about what the Princess quite reasonably says is "a private matter." When she visited a school for mentally handicapped children last week, Di was handed a bouquet by 13-year-old Student Fiona Pasmore, who shyly reached out, patted the royal tummy and reportedly...
...other responsibilities included serving as vice-chairman of the State Department's Board of Foreign Scholarships from 1956 to 1969 president of the New England Conference of Graduate Education from 1947 to 1958; and a trustee of Barnard College the Buckingham School in Cambridge and the Alice Freeman Palmer Institute in Sedalian...
Thatcher's announcement last week of new elections caught even some of her closest aides by surprise. But once she had made the decision, she wasted not a moment. By breakfast time Monday, she had informed her Cabinet. Shortly after noon, she drove to Buckingham Palace to tell Queen Elizabeth II. Within the hour, the news was out: the Prime Minister had called general elections for June 9, nearly a year before her five-year term...
Prince Charles, 34, on the countless rooms in Buckingham Palace: "I haven't counted them. There are some we haven't been in, but quite a few people might have been living in them for several years unbeknownst...
...royal family itself comes under a scathingly iconoclastic attack that makes Joan Rivers look like a Buckingham Palace press agent. The palace protocol contingent, which readies the hospital for the Queen Mother's visit, consist of a midget (Marcus Powell) and a very prim and proper transvestite named Lady Felicity (John Bett). Yet, as the British humor magazine Punch noted in defense of the movie. Anderson ultimately remains just this side of decorum: when the Queen Mother finally does arrive--admittedly in a stretcher and ambulance to get her past the left-wing mobs protesting the fascist African dictator being...