Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century, but she keeps up with it just fine. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, far and away Britain's favorite royal, carries out a daunting round of official duties, and just because she turned 86 last week was no reason for slowing down: two art exhibitions, a concert and a conservation group were on her birthday-week itinerary. So was an appearance on the porch of Clarence House, her London residence, with her daughters, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, and two of her grandsons, accompanied by their wives (Prince Charles with the Princess of Wales and the new Duke...
...both by black leaders angered at Thatcher's refusal to consider sanctions and by the government of State President P.W. Botha for "direct interference" in South Africa's affairs. By mid-July, Kaunda was threatening to leave the Commonwealth if Thatcher remained adamant. Reports were even circulating that Queen Elizabeth II, the titular head of the Commonwealth, was worried about the possibility of its breakup...
...many of these edibles are becoming standards, not only at high-fashion greengrocers but in the supermarkets of several major chains. "Foods that look strange now (as ginger, shallots, bean sprouts and even avocados did not so long ago) may soon be common in our culinary vocabulary," writes Elizabeth Schneider in her carefully detailed and timely new buying guide and cookbook, Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables, A Commonsense Guide (Harper...
...unusual outburst was triggered by a provocative newspaper article. The London Sunday Times, citing "sources close to the Queen," had reported that Elizabeth II was "dismayed by many of Mrs. Thatcher's policies." For weeks there had been rumors that Her Majesty was not amused by divisions within the 49-member Commonwealth over Thatcher's refusal to consider sanctions against South Africa. But the Sunday Times's story went further. It charged that "the Queen considers the Prime Minister's approach often to be uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive." Specifically, the report continued, the monarch feels that the Thatcher government...
...balcony above. "Give us a kiss!" calls out the crowd, and the playful pair cup hands to ears as if they do not follow. Then, obligingly, they kiss. That morning the toothy young lieutenant and the bonny red-headed publishing assistant awakened as Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, and Sarah Margaret Ferguson. That night the two 26-year-olds went to sleep as husband and wife and, thanks to a wedding-gift title from Her Majesty, Duke and Duchess of York. Five years ago, when Prince Charles took Lady Diana Spencer for his wife, the occasion...