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...senior gift co-chairs, who are responsible for encouraging seniors to give money to Harvard before they graduate, were chosen by Kacholia and Harvard First Marshal Philip R. Kaufman '98, in conjunction with Peggy V. Hsia '93 of the University Development Office...
...when Queen Elizabeth toasted her husband on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary last week, she did strike a surprising note of intimacy. Talking at one point about the need to be sensitive to the public's will, she said, "I have done my best, with Prince Philip's constant love and help, to interpret it correctly..." There it was--the word love. Yes, she had tucked it away in a parenthetical phrase, but no one could remember the Queen's ever using it in a personal context. Will it now replace "duty" in her lexicon...
Probably not, but during two days of anniversary celebrations, the Queen and Prince Philip displayed exceptional openness and humanity. They spoke of each other and their children with far more feeling than they have in the past. Again and again, the Queen stopped to shake hands with people in the crowds, and at one banquet she sat at a table with a jockey, an autoworker and a policewoman. Surely the happiness of the occasion created an expansive mood, but the royal couple's behavior was not entirely spontaneous. The anniversary was an opportunity to present themselves and their children sympathetically...
...festivities began on Wednesday, the eve of the anniversary, with a luncheon for 800 at which Prince Philip toasted his wife. "I think the main lesson we have learnt," he said, "is that tolerance is the one essential ingredient in any happy marriage...You can take it from me, the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance." The next day, Nov. 20, the couple attended a service in Westminster Abbey, where they had been married. The abbey was also the site of Diana's funeral three months ago, and as Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry walked...
...plaster, 500,000 sheets of gold leaf were used. Replacing the ceiling of St. George's Hall required 350 mature oaks. The ceiling that the fire destroyed dated from the 1820s, and Prince Charles, believing it was "awful," called for a new design. In a personal touch, Prince Philip made a sketch with a fireman working to save the building, and that became the basis for a new stained-glass window...