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...ways and encouraged her sons to strive for a kind of über-normality. Yet as she discovered, it's hard to keep it real in the parallel universe that her former in-laws inhabit. Their palaces are packed with treasures, and swarm with valets and equerries, butlers and footmen; yet it's anything but a luxurious existence. Royal quarters are surprisingly spartan; there's no privacy, but little meaningful human contact. "People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.' But of course I have...
...wouldn't expect a guy wearing muddy boots and worn moleskin pants to saunter past the formally dressed footmen at London's Fortnum & Mason, the famous Piccadilly food emporium that's a favorite of the British royals. But Steve Benbow, 38, is not your average fancy-food consumer. He is one of many urban apiarists, or beekeepers, in the British capital, and although he usually enters Fortnum's by the staff door and heads to the roof, where he oversees four beehives, some days he can't resist stopping on the grand ground floor for the thrill of seeing...
...Alan Reid, the former chief operating officer of the accounting and consulting firm KPMG who now serves as keeper of the privy purse, says the goal is "not a cheap monarchy, but a value-for-money monarchy." The Queen's natural frugality (except for her racehorses) is well known: footmen at the palace are told to avoid the center of the hallways to preserve the carpets, and she reminds people to turn off lights. Apart from Prince Charles, whose Duchy of Cornwall estate funds his private and official duties, and Prince Philip, she supports the other royals using...
...classical statues of the gods, but we mortal women gaze, moonfaced, at the soft flicker of his eyelashes. He licks his lips and scrabbles at the crucifix around his neck, he moves his hand and the row of bands and bracelets around his wrist shuffle like waiting footmen - nothing happens, but we are bewitched. What is it about this man, with his metrosexual style and his popstar wife and his oddly named sons, that holds our attention - not just in Room 41 but across Europe? Headlines speculate about his professional life - is he leaving Madrid for an English team...
...French aristocracy, which--it paid to be original, noted one of his successors--was entirely at home with him. In France he was cultivated, cosseted, lionized by dukes, counts and princes, for which John Adams could no more forgive him than he could accept Franklin's rampant popularity with footmen and chambermaids. In Philadelphia Franklin trailed behind him the self-made man's dubious scent of social climbing. In France he did not have to climb. He was hoisted...