Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next day in Silicon Valley, there was a 45-minute royal tour of a Hewlett Packard microchip factory. The Queen is to get, courtesy of the Government, the company's $24,000 HP 250 business computer system. It will be installed at Buckingham Palace, presumably to help manage the breeding and feeding of her dozens of Thoroughbreds...
...Francisco's big homosexual community, GOD SAVE THIS QUEEN buttons were popular, and on Thursday night at Kimo's Bar, a gang of happy transvestites held a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike contest. "It's a tribute to her," said Lee Raymond, whose dress, pearls and handbag were well chosen...
...lighthearted, however, were the pamphlets and broadsides delivered by the local Irish Republican Committee encouraging anti-British protesters to confront the Queen. At the Davies Symphony Hall's morning entertainment (which included, à la campy Carmen Miranda, two women with hats bearing huge models of downtown London and San Francisco), an Ulster émigré named Seamus Gibney screamed, "Stop the torture!" He was hauled out, Mary Martin calmly finished singing Getting to Know You, and the Queen's press secretary said he thought Gibney had only coughed...
...Walter Annenberg Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1969, the choice was greeted with derision by much of the British press. The wealthy Annenberg, then publisher of TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form and two Philadelphia newspapers, knew nothing of statecraft. When he first met Queen Elizabeth II, he replied to her polite question about where he was living with his simulation of politesse: "We're in the embassy residence, subject, of course, to some of the discomfiture as a result of a need for, uh, elements of refurbishment and rehabilitation...
...Annenberg's "Room of Memories," the Queen shares wall space with mementos of her host's acquaintance with world figures. The Christmas cards that Annenberg has received annually from the Queen Mother since 1972 are on the wall. So, too, is a copy of his condolence letter, and Queen Elizabeth's reply, after her cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed by Irish terrorists...