Word: buckingham
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...empt terrorist attacks on the ground. British police launched a massive search after Scotland Yard reported that it had uncovered a plot by the outlawed Irish Republican Army to place bombs at twelve English seaside resorts. Police defused one device in a crowded hotel just 100 yds. from Buckingham Palace in London. Sixteen suspects were detained. At the U.S. State Department, officials announced plans to renovate or relocate almost half of its 262 embassies and consulates, citing vulnerability to espionage and terrorist attack as the reason for the new program, which is expected to cost $3.5 billion...
...government buildings, killing seven people and wounding 240. The explosions came a day after King Birendra declared that he would thwart any "attempt to undermine peace and order." In London on Sunday, police set up cordons after a bomb was discovered in a hotel across the street from Buckingham Palace...
Imagine ocean waves engulfing the topmost girders of the Eiffel Tower. Imagine Buckingham Palace under water, and St. Peter's too. Well, that is just a joke, a metaphor, but it is what one travel agent thinks of when she looks ahead to the travel season this spring and summer. "Europe is going to sink into the ocean under the sheer weight of American tourists," says Jane Levin of Boston's Garber Travel Agency. "In 24 years in the travel business, I have never seen it so busy so early. It's incredible...
ROYAL SECRETS TAKES US step-by-step through the "downstairs" of Buckingham Palace, Sandringham, and the other Royal residences, dropping harmless chit-chat at every turn. Prince Philip, we harm, visits the kitchen regularly to berate the cooks. Prince Charles hung out there as a child, but by the time he reached 30 he had forgotten the way. Lady Diana, captive in the palace before her wedding, spent so much time in the pantry that The Yeoman of the Glass and China finally threw her out. "Through there is your side of the house. Your Royal Highness," he said, pointing...
This section of the boom, which seems more than a little vindictive, tells of cheap Christmas presents (a butler was given his choice between blue or brown handkerchief), low wages, and enormous clothing expenses. The staff quarters in the family's private homes are woefully underfurnished; only at Buckingham Palace, where the government pays the bills, do the servants receive heat...