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...chest infection at Sandringham, the royal retreat in Norfolk. She was dependent on a wheelchair and still had a worrying cough in early February, when her second daughter, Margaret, died in London at age 71 after a series of strokes. Nevertheless, the Queen Mother insisted on attending the Princess's funeral at Windsor. The Archbishop of Canterbury recalled that at the St. George's Chapel service, she stood in tribute as Margaret's coffin passed...
...royal deaths, of Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, will doubtless cast a pall on the Golden Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of Elizabeth II's reign. Still, early indications from the palace suggest that the celebrations will continue more or less as planned. The Queen Mother would have wanted it that way. More than that, she undoubtedly would have wanted to be a part of them...
...Someday my prince will come,” Snow White wholesomely sings in Disney’s first feature-length cartoon. Yes, irritated Z magazine writer Marlene Wurfel acknowledges, he will come. But in his sexual relationship with the princess, will...
Pocahontas, the third and final film screened last weekend, requires a somewhat more complex analysis. The 1996 film is unforgivable in its delusional approach to the historical reality of the Algonquian princess Pocahontas. The cartoon Pocahontas continues Disney’s tradition of the scantily clad female lead, and the film almost explicitly suggests that the clash between Native Americans and English colonists was due merely to cultural misunderstandings. The film ends with the settlers sailing back to England—and away from the conquest and genocide that actually took place...
...Zhao became an overnight sensation in greater China thanks to Princess Pearl, a popular Taiwanese TV show. Three months ago, a fashion magazine printed a photo of Zhao in a dress with a Japanese wartime flag on it. Big trouble in rather large China. After that, she was attacked during a singing performance in China. Zhao publicly apologized a week later; it's a strange world we live in when a starlet starts a cultural war. "My generation doesn't know much about the war. This serves as a lesson," she says, "Let's bury the hatchet and let bygones...