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That the Bond Girl rising from the sea is the reigning Oscar queen says plenty about the staying power of the understated British spy whom Ian Fleming created 50 years ago. Though Fleming's 14th and last Bond book was published 36 years ago--two years after his death--his character launched the most successful franchise in film history. Now celebrating its 40th anniversary with the release this month of the 20th official Bond film, the series has come roaring back from its midlife crisis of the 1980s. The past three outings, all starring Pierce Brosnan, have together grossed more...
...ever forget their picnic on a grouse moor? - they have thought they could control the terms on which they revealed themselves, and hence shape a "modern" relationship between sovereign and people. It's been a disastrous policy, one that hit its nadir (for now) with suspicions that the Queen intervened to stop the trial of Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, because of royal fears that Burrell might tell stories about wrongdoing inside the Palace. After the trial had ended, of course, those stories did emerge - filling the tabloids with allegations of homosexual rape among the Prince of Wales' staff...
First you're accused of stealing from the People's Princess. Then the Queen speaks up and you're cleared of all charges - but that's when your reputation really starts to take a pounding. For Paul Burrell, the former butler to Princess Diana, life has been like that ever since six of London's tabloids began hounding him mercilessly. Burell's real crime: selling his story to another paper. Two weeks ago Burrell was riding a wave of public sympathy. His trial for stealing 310 of Diana's items, from handbags to photos to a ceremonial sword, collapsed when...
...mother and daughter spoke. He called Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, a hypocrite for championing her against the Windsors in his famous eulogy at Westminster Abbey, because "in life she had been unacceptable to him." But Burrell's most intriguing disclosure was an account of the meeting with the Queen when he mentioned he would be keeping some of Diana's things. He said they talked for three hours, both standing, the Queen occasionally misting up as she recalled her former daughter-in-law. He claimed she told him, "Nobody, Paul, has been as close to a member...
...VACQUITTED. PAUL BURRELL, 44, former footman of Queen Elizabeth II who went on to become the butler and confidante of Princess Diana, of stealing more than 300 of the Princess' personal belongings; in London. Prosecutors dropped the case after the unusual intervention of the Queen and before Burrell was called to testify...