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Elizabeth Dole gets ready for every event as if she's having tea with the Queen. At a rally in a tobacco warehouse so humid we all feel like chain smokers, Dole appears in a bubble-gum pink suit with beige pumps and stockings. If someone were to, say, spill barbecue on her, a mint green spare is hanging in her Buick sedan...
DIED. CLAUS VON AMSBERG, 76, popular German-born Dutch prince and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam. Once vilified for his brief involvement with Hitler Youth as a teenager, he changed public opinion by denouncing Nazism, learning Dutch and working to preserve environmental resources...
...shops she had designated; some he intended to return but could not "because my memories of the death of the Princess were still much too raw." For most people in Britain, however, the cult of Diana has dulled. Other public occasions of grief, such as Sept. 11 and the Queen Mother's death, as well as happy ones like the Queen's Jubilee, have intervened. Her sons, so poignantly vulnerable in 1997, have grown up. The husband who made her life miserable has rehabilitated himself by being a good father - now 62% think he will make a good King...
During last week's regal state funeral of Prince Claus, Queen Beatrix's consort, the Netherlands looked like its old self, a place of traditional reserve and shared national feeling. When the ceremony was over, though, the country reverted to its more recent norms of chaos and calumny. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende informed the Queen that the government he put together 87 days ago had reached a dead end. The reason: a bitter leadership feud between Economics Minister Herman Heinsbroek and Health Minister Eduard Bomhoff, both members of List Pim Fortuyn (LPF). When Balkenende, a Christian Democrat, failed...
...food on offer could compare. I have my doubts, though. There’s little consolation in the fact that I outlasted most other diners, even the masochistic, thrill-seeking types that frequent Hell Night. My world is shattered—I am no longer the undisputed queen of heat...