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TAMAR GOREGIAN, winner of the Iraq Queen of Beauty pageant, in her acceptance speech, four days before extremists' threats prompted her resignation. The second and third runners-up declined the crown, and the current queen is in hiding...
...Queen is 80 on April 21, and in the run-up to her birthday, TIME has been exploring how the institution of the British Crown retains meaning by watching the Queen at work. At her direction, the palace also granted unusual and exclusive access to her senior aides and her son Andrew. But in keeping with her lifelong custom, she granted no interview; she prefers to be observed rather than questioned...
...royals receive. As part of the deal that saw her start paying income tax in 1993, the Queen arranged inheritance-tax exemptions for what she received from her mother, and what she will bequeath to Charles. But disclosure has usefully illuminated the distinction between her personal wealth and the Crown's. She used to be commonly described as Britain's richest person, with a fortune estimated at $7.6 billion by the Sunday Times Rich List in 1993, but last year's list pegs it at $507 million, making her 180th...
...fickle as horses'. "Self-destruction is their biggest problem," says Prochaska; and that, in the end, will depend on choices the future Kings themselves will make. As for the institution of the monarchy, the Queen's track record reveals what she wants to leave behind: a Crown relentlessly pragmatic enough to stay popular...
...walks back outside to his band and points to the golden trumpet. But he has forgotten something inside.“Wait. Hold on,” Fountain says. He ducks back into his garage and and emerges wearing a huge sombrero and clutching a 1.75-liter bottle of Crown Royal Whiskey. As he pours it into a glass with ice, his face is completely concealed by the straw hat’s brim. He looks up, drinks the liquid. Above him, a campaign sign reads, “We’re Home.”Sometimes Fountain sits...