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...Loud cheers from the crowd got cheeky smiles and a wave from the same two Princes today as they made their way out of Guards Chapel, near Buckingham Palace, after the service. Elton John, who sang sad songs at Diana's funeral, strode out to the kind of applause he'd have been more used to on stage. Even Gordon Brown, as fresh a British Prime Minister as Tony Blair was when Diana was killed, got his own big cheer. (The cool Scot responded with...
...Caste) by journalists Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella, details how Italy's politicians have used their institutional muscle to pile up a glut of privileges. They enjoy the highest rate of chauffeured cars among European governments, the President's headquarters cost four times as much to maintain as Buckingham Palace, and there have even been indignant demands for better gelato at the Parliament cafeteria. Adding to the public's sense that politicians are not to be trusted, 16 of the Italian Parliament's 630 members are convicted felons. All this is feeding a mounting frustration with the institutional pillars...
...Zelig, only less self-effacing, Campbell was present at key events of the decade. Royal biographers have mined for new material on Princess Diana for years. Campbell's diaries reveal a trove of meetings she held with Blair when he was opposition leader, and describe the interaction of Buckingham Palace and the Labour Party in the days after her death. Depicted in the Oscar-winning movie, The Queen, as a boorish bully who radiates contempt for the Palace, the author of the diaries instead betrays a respect for its residents. It's reciprocated. A senior official at Buckingham Palace told...
...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...