Word: duchessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reruns his rollicking contempt for General Motors (and for humanity) in Pets or Meat. The gem is A Sense of History, directed by Mike Leigh. Jim Broadbent, who wrote this deft monologue, plays a squire of Churchillian mien and Sweeney Todd meanness. Not since Browning's My Last Duchess has an aristocrat confessed his crimes with such self-lacerating...
...stage. She is comfortable as Katherine in Branagh's Henry V or as Beatrice in his new film Much Ado About Nothing, as a 1930s English domestic in Remains of the Day or a '40s femme fatale in Dead Again. Especially, delightfully, in Impromptu, as a 19th century French duchess who plays hostess to a rowdy houseful of artists. Her take on this French version of the upper-class twit is cutting but not hostile -- a sweet satire in the Joyce Grenfell manner...
...role to royal offspring and consorts as well as to the crown, is on the brink of collapse. None of the four children of Queen Elizabeth II has been able to sustain a stable marriage. Princess Anne has divorced and may remarry, Prince Andrew is separated from his cavorting Duchess, and Prince Edward has not approached the altar or shown signs that he ever will. The scandal over Diana's secretly taped phone coos to a friend has been overshadowed by reports of a steamy conversation between Prince Charles and a longtime companion. And now, in what...
...turmoil of '92 began when Sarah Ferguson, or Fergie, the notorious Duchess of York, decided that a cramped, duty-bound life-style was not for her and bolted, leaving a trail of dubious liaisons, outsize bills and scandalous tabloid shots of her cavorting topless with a boyfriend in front of her two children. Then Diana went public with her marriage troubles, allowing her brother and close friends to talk to Andrew Morton, whose best-selling book, Diana: Her True Story, detailed her depression, bulimia, suicide attempts and estrangement from her prince. By royal standards of conduct, in which silence...
...call a special phone line and listen to the tape? Three days after this bombshell, the Sun, Britain's raciest tabloid, announced it possessed another juicy phone transcript, this one of a conversation between Fergie and Prince Andrew in January 1990. During this call, the paper claimed, the duchess said she wanted to escape the marriage and go off to Argentina, where her mother lives after bolting from her father. Andrew and Fergie separated in March of this year...