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...Boston and Massachusetts are losing untold numbers of conventions because we don't have the facilities to hold them," Weld Press Secretary Virginia Buckingham said in an interview at the State House...
This Thursday marks the first anniversary of the Waleses' official separation -- a year that has taken its toll on the entire family. Diana threw herself into her many charities, but she kept some distance from Buckingham Palace. It was hard to know who was dissing whom. The Princess was conspicuously absent from Trooping the Color in June and the Queen Mum's birthday in August...
...Timberland's time over? Not at all. "People got overly euphoric and the stock got ahead of itself," says Laurence Leeds Jr., who watches the company for Buckingham Research in New York City. "Its decline is minuscule compared to its rise." The Swartzes own some 60% of Timberland stock, which makes it thinly traded and therefore highly volatile...
...state rooms contain only a tiny fraction of the immense Royal Collection (10,000 pictures, they say, with 30,000 drawings and half a million prints), better sampled in the galleries outside the palace that are always open to the public and have no queues. Buckingham Palace does contain some great pictures though. Most are from the Netherlands: Rembrandt's ship $ builder, with his sketches of hull sections before him, being handed a note by his stout wife; top-flight Rubenses; and Van Dyck's two portraits of Charles I, especially the "greate peece," which depicts him with his consort...
There are 600 rooms in Buckingham Palace, of which 18 are now open to the public. Quite enough. No tourists will see the royal bedrooms, and nobody but a sociologist would want to visit whatever remains of the tiny attic chambers where the housemaids -- whose salary Prince Albert, shortly after marrying Victoria, cut from about 45 pounds to 12 pounds a year -- used to sleep, and perhaps still do. What you get for your 8 pounds is a walk through the main formal rooms: the Throne Room, the Picture Gallery, the Green, Blue and White drawing rooms, the best...