Word: buckingham
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...months ago, officials at Buckingham Palace feared that the celebrations of her Golden Jubilee would be lifeless and sour. The climb back from Princess Diana's death in 1997, when Elizabeth's wooden initial response provoked public fury, has been arduous. Her offspring have continued to provide embarrassing fodder for the tabloids, from Edward and Sophie trying to trade their lineage for gain to Prince Harry's dabbling in drugs...
...rigidity came as close as anything has to destroying her reign. The catalyst was the death of Diana, whose publicity-soaked campaign to become Queen of people's hearts resonated on levels Elizabeth had never contemplated. Courtiers could not initially persuade the Queen to fly the royal standard at Buckingham Palace at half-mast (it had not been lowered when her father the King died) or to make any convincingly warm gesture toward the memory of Diana-who had been leaking viciously against the Windsors for years. Angry crowds, furious commentators and smart advisers persuaded Elizabeth within days that...
...Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Fendi boutiques, and the Base Bar, a hip sandwich eatery in the basement music department - to its existing 15 (three are concessions). Under Barat's direction, Selfridges even won the Royal Warrant for Food, an honor that allows the store to deliver groceries daily to Buckingham Palace. The recently renovated Liberty store on Regent Street now features a high-end restaurant called Arthur...
...example for her subjects, she visited hospitals and slums and delivered broadcasts in fluent French to the women of occupied France. The Queen recognized that war would prove to be a great democratic leveler. "I'm glad we have been bombed," she said in 1940, after Buckingham Palace weathered the first in a series of air attacks. "It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face." Hitler was to have said, "She is the most dangerous woman in Europe...
...charming, sensible woman," according to one friend. Rather, she appreciated the problems such a union would pose for the institution of the monarchy and refused to consider the possibility of marriage on that basis. Just last week, Charles and Camilla were together for the first time at Buckingham Palace in the presence of the Queen, at a concert by famed cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Now, with the death of the Queen Mother, Charles and Camilla may feel more free...