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...Beatle Paul McCartney yesterday after being knighted on bended knee by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace...
LONDON: Not only is Paul not dead, he is about to be knighted. Paul McCartney will soon become Sir Paul. The former Beatle will be among the 1,035 honored at a Buckingham palace ceremony next summer. Thirty years ago, when the Beatles were made Members of the Order of the British Empire, insulted Brits returned their own honors to Queen Elizabeth II to protest what they called the system's devaluation. Today, the awards are given to any number of ordinary people who have made significant contributions, such as traffic warden Evelyn Greechan, who bravely booked her local police...
Wills will have a powerful role in shaping the monarchy in the coming century, and as Starkey points out, Buckingham Palace is beginning to make use of him. He cannot afford to stumble. The burdens are enormous, but at least he is surrounded by billowing gusts of goodwill. He may be that stable leader who is so badly needed to strengthen a besieged but valuable institution...
...Princess of Wales, as the mother of Prince William, will be regarded by the Queen and the Prince of Wales as being a member of the Royal family." So read the statement released by Buckingham Palace last week announcing that the Waleses had reached a divorce settlement. This acknowledgement must have come hard. Diana lost the designation Her Royal Highness, but the palace could not dismiss her completely, despite Charles' bitter acrimony toward her (London papers reported that the Queen was willing to let Diana keep her H.R.H., but Charles insisted that she relinquish it). The recognition that she remains...
...flagship, Queen Elizabeth 2, was launched by the monarch herself in 1967. Both the House of Windsor and the money-losing cruise-ship company, a division of Britain's Trafalgar House PLC, have endured a series of public calamities--although at least the toilets haven't been exploding in Buckingham Palace, as they were aboard the QE2 during its infamous Cruise to Hell in late...