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...wonder Queen Elizabeth II has commissioned four photographic self-portraits to celebrate her golden anniversary as Britain's monarch; the picture of her scandal-plagued family, after all, isn't getting any prettier. Already viewed as somewhat of a rambunctious royal, PRINCE HARRY reportedly had a marijuana and alcohol problem. Last summer, according to the News of the World tabloid, Prince Charles ordered his younger son to spend a day with hardcore heroin addicts at a South London rehab center. It apparently was a ploy to scare the then 16-year-old Eton student straight; sources at St. James...
Simpson was the first woman named Person of the Year (she would be followed by, among others, Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 and Philippine President Corazon Aquino in 1986). A twice-divorced American socialite, she was, to Britain's King Edward VIII, "the woman I love," for whom he abdicated the throne in a saga that shook the monarchy. Their love was deep, but their long, resplendent exile as Duke and Duchess of Windsor struck some as arid and irrelevant. Still, when the King announced his decision, she was, as TIME wrote, "the most talked-about, written-about, headlined...
...BRITAIN Members' Benefits British legislators voted to allow Sinn Fein's four Members of Parliament to claim expense payments and office space even though the republicans cannot take their seats in the House of Commons because they refuse to swear allegiance to the Queen. The Conservatives and Northern Ireland's unionists opposed the move, branding it an unwarranted concession to the I.R.A.'s political wing...
...Kelly: Well, many women have been Person of the Year. Wallace Warfield-Simpson, who married the King of England; Queen Elizabeth has been Woman of the Year; Madame Chaing Kai-Shek and Cori Aquino...
...trailer for "The Queen of the Damned" is already showing in theaters and is also available to watch online at queenofthedamned.warnerbros.com. (Warner Brothers is owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of TIME). Aaliyah, at the time of her death, also had a role in the sequel to the hit sci-fi movie "The Matrix," but hadn't done much filming for the project yet, so it seems unlikely that her work can be salvaged. However, a spokesperson for Warner Bros., which is also behind "The Matrix," says there's no official word yet on whether Aaliyah will appear...