Word: queen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seen a Merchant Ivory film knows that the British follow any flash of emotion with a long spasm of ritual. So it was that around Christmas, Prince Charles got down on one knee and proposed to Camilla Parker Bowles. She accepted. Then the Prince asked his mother Queen Elizabeth for official consent. The Queen, in accordance with the centuries-old Royal Marriages Act, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair for the government's approval. The PM consulted with the attorney general. Meanwhile, the Church of England chewed over the religious significance of a middle-aged, divorced prince trading vows with...
...nearly 500 years too late for Anne Boleyn. The living parties all felt like celebrating. In their first betrothed public appearance, the Prince of Wales, 56, smiled and blushed while Parker Bowles, 57, showed off her ring and giddily declared, "I'm just coming down to earth." The Queen issued a statement saying "The Duke of Edinburgh and I are very happy that the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to marry." For the Queen, "very happy" is gushing...
This marriage of style and content is aided immeasurably by the casting of this film. Aishwarya Rai, known in the world of Indian cinema as the Queen of Bollywood, plays Lalita, imbuing her character with the perfect self-conscious and defensive quality of someone being put up on display. Conversely, Martin Henderson, who plays Will Darcy, looks startlingly like Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, giving the character just the right sense of a healthy, wealthy, pampered and somewhat wooden American playboy...
...Schuyler O. Mann ’05’s love nest is inconspicuous in leopard print. And that’s just the sheets: As a sophomore, Mann constructed a loft, ladder, and queen-sized bed frame from scratch to give him and his roommate more space. Eventually, the ladder thing got old. Today, his room in Claverly features the same wooden bed frame—now sawed in half so that it sits on the floor. He’s added an air mattress to go along with the leopard print sheets, which were, he admits, a gift...
...following her court case closely,” Queen wrote in an e-mail...