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...economic crisis. Not since 1924, when the first Labor government took office under Ramsay MacDonald as a minority government with support from the Liberals, had the political situation been so uncertain. It was possible that Queen Elizabeth could find herself in an extraordinarily awkward position for a modern constitutional monarch: deciding which party or parties would be best able to command support in the House of Commons and thus run the government. The Crown could even be dragged into an unseemly political row if the Tories tried to cling to power in a way that appeared unfair...
...aging (81) monarch-who survived Mussolini's invasion in the 1930s as well as an abortive coup 13 years ago -really had no choice. He gave in to the rebels' demands, and last week virtually turned over the reins of authority to the military...
...time around. Graduation has the reputation for being a pretty good party, and since it was the end (appropriately called Commencement), it had to be pretty good. Also, Gerard Piel, in Scientific American had called it the most stirring ceremonial occasion this side of the coronation of an English monarch. So maybe there was something in it. Certainly there was something after it. The future...
...movie was made in England in 1957, some years after Chaplin, a British subject, abruptly exiled himself from the U.S. rather than submit to threatened McCarthyite inquiries about his politics and morals by immigration officials. The onetime monarch of the box office and American moviegoers' affection typecast himself as the deposed King of a mythical country visiting the U.S. to promote an Atoms for Peace program. From the King's point of view, America's movies are shown to be drenched in sex and violence, its jazz too loud (though what is played is a decade...
Richard is a vain monarch who laughs at the discomfiture of his nobles, ravages their estates, and surrounds himself with fops and flatterers. Too late he finds himself deserted and his angry lords allied to his enemy Bolingbroke, who marches triumphantly across England to secure Richard's abdication and his crown...