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After church, Mobutu joins guests for a flute of his favorite pink Laurent Perrier champagne at the nearby presidential palace. Like an amiable monarch amid courtiers, he bows gracefully to kiss a woman's hand and banters politely with a local Jesuit priest before herding everyone across an immense terrace toward a buffet laden with lobster and thick steaks. In the 100 degrees heat, a wave of satisfaction seems to envelop the presidential party, a sense that all is still well in this remote hinterland far from the chaos afflicting the rest of the country...
...sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby like a teddy bear. The monarch, who was shortly to abdicate, looks remarkably wan and shifty, and it's hard not to imagine that in this picture the Servant of Abraham was granted a moment of prophecy...
...Catherine of Aragon's infant son lived to maturity. There would have been no divorce; Henry would have remained Catholic and the course of the English Reformation would have been profoundly altered. And there would have been no Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn's daughter, depriving England of a monarch who far outshone her son-obsessed father...
Tory M.P. John Bowis spoke for many when he said, "It would be absurd to think of two royal processions coming from different directions to the Abbey for a coronation. If it is not possible to have a happy monarch and family, I think we should skip a generation and wait for William." The succession issue lies at the heart of the monarchy; for the institution to survive, it must be stable. If the Waleses pursue other romantic interests, as is likely, the Windsors may reel into even thornier problems than they faced...
...moment, their faith is pinned on Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. He is too much the populist President to take comparisons with King Louis XIV of France very kindly. But anyone who looks at how power is wielded in Russia today cannot help seeing that, to paraphrase the boastful French monarch, l'etat c'est Yeltsin. The Russian leader never aspired to the role of Sun President, around whom everything in the realm turns. But he so dominates the political landscape that it would be no exaggeration to say that as Yeltsin goes, so goes the nation...