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...more at home sipping tea with Bedouins in the desert than discussing policy in the corridors of power. Diplomats were often surprised, one visitor recalled, when he would engage them in talk about "the stars, hunting and spring rains, topics that made his eyes brighten." He was a reluctant monarch who ascended the throne to preserve family unity, and he eagerly delegated authority to younger and more sophisticated members of the royal family. When he died last week at the age of 69, Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia since 1975, was revered as a wise...
Dating back through 227 years of impeccably correct regimental rites, Trooping the Color is the celebration of the British monarch's official birthday. This year's ceremony fell victim to an even older tradition: that ineffable rite of a British spring, stormy weather. As Queen Elizabeth II, now 56, prepared to take the salute from the Brigade of Guards-their numbers depleted in service to Her Majesty in the South Atlantic-the skies opened up. The Queen's rain was mercifully short, and while it fell, Elizabeth valiantly attempted to maintain a regal posture...
...full robes and wigs. At the far end of the gallery, Reagan faced a portrait of George III, as he graciously noted in his speech. The President recalled that on a visit to the British embassy in Washington last year, where he also encountered a portrait of the monarch against whom the American colonists rebelled, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher counseled him to "let bygones be bygones...
...week insisted that "if the Argentines tell us that they are prepared to withdraw, we shall enable them to do so with safety, dignity and dispatch." Otherwise, she said, "we shall now have to take back by force what the Argentines would not give up." Even Britain's monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, whose second son, Prince Andrew, is a helicopter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Invincible, made a rare and direct comment on the issue. Using the banquet at Windsor Castle for President Ronald Reagan as the occasion, she personally denounced "naked aggression" in the Falklands. In the port...
...City on June 14, just before the Pope leaves to address the International Labor Organization in Geneva. Their demands include a 20% pay increase, more generous child allowances and pensions and a 36-hour week. The workers hope the protest will prod the Pope, the microstate's absolute monarch, into resolving the dispute himself. If the Pope can settle an Italian labor quarrel, he will surely add to his reputation as a diplomatic miracle worker...