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...fourth in four years - that led to cardiac complications. In the early hours of the morning she was whisked from her home in London's Kensington Palace to King Edward VII Hospital. A few hours later, at 6:30 a.m., she died "peacefully in her sleep," according to a Buckingham Palace statement. Her two much-loved children, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, were at her bedside. As the Union flag flew at half - mast over Buckingham Palace for the first time since Princess Diana's death in 1997, the royal family was making arrangements for the funeral - a private...
...says Guardsman Miguel Latorre, 42. "I say, 'Yo, it's my job.'" With the last ruins of the Twin Towers removed for possible display in a future memorial, the dozens of camouflaged Guard members and police officers stationed there now serve as the attraction itself, like the guards at Buckingham Palace. Tourists take pictures with them, chat them up and say patriotic thank yous before hitting the souvenir tables...
...London in the 1950s where Willie, a reluctant academic, has been sent to a second-rate college on scholarship. He is baffled by the wider world. He expected the city to have a storybook magnificence. Instead, he finds Buckingham Palace disappointing. "He thought the maharaja's palace in his own state was far grander," writes Naipaul, "and this made him feel, in a small part of his heart, that the Kings and Queens of England were impostors." London's doors do not open easily. Attempts to contact his famous namesake are all met with the same brief note: "Dear Willie...
Jennifer Graham, who is associate director for college counseling at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, a preparatory school in Cambridge, says that while students at elite high schools have to worry about competing against their classmates more than their public school counterparts, the middle of the class benefits from attending a competitive school that provides them with a rigorous curriculum...
...rest of us. For instance, you know how you get when crazy Uncle Ed keeps shoving his camcorder in your face? PRINCE WILLIAM, 19, feels your chagrin. During his first week at St. Andrews University in Scotland, a camera crew was twice spotted breaking strict privacy rules imposed by Buckingham Palace for the heir to the heir to the throne. After the cameramen were thrown off campus, Wills called his father to complain. An "incandescent" Prince Charles, the London papers report, was even angrier when he learned the crew worked for Ardent Productions, owned by Wills' uncle--and Charles' younger...