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...whole enterprise. As recently as 1990, Parliament voted against taxing the Queen, though polls now show that about 80% of the population think the Queen should pay something. She is listening, and some sort of plans are on the drawing board. It is more likely that the next monarch will be faced with paying the bill. Even such pro-monarchy stalwarts as constitutional scholar Lord St. John (pronounced Sin-gin) of Fawlsey say that "in this day and age, the income-tax exemption is pretty hard to defend." But he deplores any further changes. "The monarchy is the symbol...
Does Britain need a monarch at all, or could the nation do just as well without? There are a few obvious advantages. The country profits from an enormous tourist trade, an $11.5 billion industry in 1990. London is one of the top destinations for traveling Americans, and the quaint ceremonies that surround royal life are a major part of its appeal. Then there is the less easily measured factor of the tradition and continuity that the crown represents, something to be proud of in the post-World War II decades when Britain has had to settle for considerably less wealth...
...Clinton lacks integrity, Perot is a monarch, and Bush has no leadership skills and is ruining our economy," say Jay R. Girotto '96, one of the organizers of Citizens for Neil Rudenstine Committee...
...family would set by example the moral tone for the nation and the empire. Collective good conduct became a justification for authority and privilege. Duty, self-sacrifice, fidelity in service to the public weal and in Christian marriage were all to be embodied in word and deed by the monarch and her clan...
...restrictions of permanent galleries; thus it gives curators the flexibility to create the museum of their dreams. The installation for Ramesses, for example, opened with a grand processional hall formed by rows of 45-ft.-tall lotus-topped columns. In Catherine an entire cobblestone courtyard was built and the monarch's gilded coronation carriage set down in the middle...