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...Prince Charles, the Queen, 55, was leading 1,000 troops of her Guards division down London's Mall. The royal family was bound for the huge open ground of the Horse Guards Parade for the annual ceremony of the Trooping the Color in honor of the monarch's official birthday. Suddenly, as millions of television viewers looked on, six shots rang out. The Queen's horse reared. She looked pale and shaken as she fought to control him, turning back to see whether Prince Philip and Prince Charles were all right. But none of the shots found...
...Giscard d'Estaing's passing from the presidency in France rivaled King Richard II's dethronement in Shakespeare's play. In a carefully staged farewell address to the nation on television last week, the defeated President seemed to concede that, like the deposed monarch, he had not yet "shook off the regal thoughts wherewith I reign'd." Seated at a desk in solitary grandeur in a leather-bound chair in an otherwise unfurnished room, Giscard spoke of "the end of great hopes" brought about by the election two weeks ago of Socialist Fran...
Another voter concern focuses on the power he has accumulated during his term. Few disagree that he has concentrated presidential authority to a greater degree than either De Gaulle or Georges Pompidou, his two Fifth Republic predecessors. "France is governed by an elected sovereign, a republican monarch, almost an enlightened despot " writes French Journalist Alain Duhamel [Giscard] is at the same time the Queen of England and Her Majesty's Prime Minister...
...Like a monarch, that earlier Elizabeth perhaps, she has been making her triumphal progress up the East Coast, with waves of that wonderful applause echoing in her ears. Fort Lauderdale's Parker Playhouse, where the production began Feb. 27, was sold out for three weeks. Washington's Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center has been booked for six weeks, and when the play opened there last Thursday, much of the Government, including President Reagan and Vice President Bush, were out front. There were three curtain calls, and Reagan and his wife Nancy went backstage to congratulate the cast...
...last pathetic hours of a woman at the mercy of a woman who knows no mercy, Elizabeth I? Neither. Hildesheimer believes that history is an obscene irony, an absurdist fable signifying nothing. His prelates, earls, doctors, ladies in waiting and greedy hangers-on vary so little from the monarch that they are all like cards in a stacked deck...