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...overwhelm Albert with accusations of "want of trust, ambition, envy, etc. etc." About ambition, the Queen may have been right. The Prince's first tutor observed of Albert, "To do something was with him a necessity." He formed an alliance with the Tories, thereby becoming the last occupant of Buckingham Palace to meddle in partisan politics. But despite reading and annotating Foreign Office papers until he dropped, the Prince had a modest reputation that rested on other accomplishments. Rhodes James calls him "the greatest Chancellor Cambridge University has ever...
...eyes staring out of his portraits are those of a private and somewhat lonely man whose fate was to suffer double exile: as a public figure in a foreign land. It was as if he had been sentenced for life to be a Prince and Buckingham Palace was his prison. In a touching letter to his brother, he spoke his heart: "In a small house there is more cheerfulness to be found than there is in the big cold world, in which most people have hearts of stone...
...second exotic subject is more mysterious, almost surreal. It is a zebra mare, which had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope and given to Queen Charlotte in 1762. This "painted African, ass," the first seen in England, was installed in the royal menagerie at Buckingham Gate. When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it. It is as though one had taken a wrong turn in the Forest of Arden and encountered...
...Ireland Monday afternoon, Reagan was greeted by Britain's Thatcher in the Orangery at Kensington Palace, the home of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The following day the Reagans had what White House officials described as "a relaxed family lunch" with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace. Whenever the Queen and the President get together, Nancy Reagan's press secretary said, they "inevitably talk about horses...
After a private lunch with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on Tuesday at Buckingham Palace, he will officiate in Normandy at observances of the 40th anniversary of Dday, including a wreath-laying ceremony at Omaha Beach. At week's end he will attend the annual economic summit meeting in London of seven of the world's major industrial powers (the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan...