Word: monarchical
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LONDON: The Queen speaks to the people at 1pm Eastern Time. This is only the second time any British monarch has made a televised speech outside of Christmas and the opening of Parliament. It comes not a moment too soon. Yesterday ? the U.K.'s fifth day of mourning over Princess Diana ? saw an increase in public distaste over the way the Royals have handled their grieving. Meanwhile, the Diana sightings began, and that noted celeb hotspot, Ecuador, passed a tough anti-paparazzi...
...Return of the King: King Norodom Sihanouk returns to the Cambodia after six months of medical treatment in China. But while the monarch has in the past been a force for reconciliation in the country, he's not likely to be able to do much this time around, with Hun Sen ? the man who deposed his son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, in a bloody coup ? still firmly in charge...
...mistress to His Future Majefty, a Prince of Wales to Be Named Later; one (1) BEAUTEOUS WOMAN of sufficient ambition to serve as the mother of a Future Prime Minister to Be Named Later; and one (1) SKINNY DIVORCEE possessed of sufficient cunning to separate a Diffident Monarch to Be Named Later from his Crown...
...Harvard Book Store carries Monarch Notes, the red and white alternative to Cliffs Notes. Some of the booksellers at the store actually said they were in favor of providing such books to students...
...quite literally in the case of the last Czar, Nicholas II (who comes across here as dull-minded and weak), and his wife Alexandra (dull-minded and forceful). At a time when Russia might have been transformed by shrewd and humane reforms into a parliamentary democracy with a figurehead monarch (a role that would have suited a Czar whose only talent was that he sat on a horse well), Nicholas saw himself as a stern 17th century autocrat. Liberalization was dangerous; had not his grandfather, the cautious reformer Alexander II, been assassinated by populists? The Czarina enthusiastically egged...