Word: buckingham
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...Minister Blair as he faced Members of Parliament one last time and accompanied a rejuvenated Prime Minister Brown as he first entered 10 Downing Street as its master. But its most visible expression was the limousine, an armor-plated Jaguar reserved for Britain's Premier, that carried Blair to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the Queen, then waited to collect Brown after he accepted Her Majesty's request to form a new government. Blair left the palace a private man in a regular car, gearing up for the uncertainties of his new assignment as a peacemaker...
...woman gets a preview of their plans tomorrow, but she won't be sharing them with the British public. Queen Elizabeth will receive Tony Blair in a private audience at Buckingham Palace early in the afternoon to accept his resignation. The prime ministerial limousine that brings Blair and his wife Cherie from Downing Street will not take them on to their next destination but instead must remain parked up in the palace courtyard, awaiting a new master. He won't be long in coming. Brown, too, will meet the Queen, after his predecessor is safely off the premises...
...Elbow Room I was bemused to see Gordon Brown pictured in a "rush-hour" tube in London [June 4]. The day a rush-hour tube is that empty is the day Brown will stop taxing anything that moves. Warren Whyte, BUCKINGHAM, ENGLAND...
What Paravicini can't tell you is his story, so Ockelford has told it for him. In his book, In the Key of Genius, published May 3, Ockelford recounts the extraordinary story of Paravicini's bizarre early lessons, his TV appearances and his concerts for charity (one at Buckingham Palace, another with the Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra) and ends with him playing Scott Joplin's The Entertainer to 12,000 people in Las Vegas last year. Paravicini, who is related through marriage to Prince Charles' wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, was only 5 years old when he and Ockelford first...
...Invite her to tea at Buckingham Palace...