Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queen can then bestow her imprimatur
...title vacant and his Queen bereft...
Leaving Ireland Monday afternoon, Reagan was greeted by Britain's Thatcher in the Orangery at Kensington Palace, the home of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The following day the Reagans had what White House officials described as "a relaxed family lunch" with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace. Whenever the Queen and the President get together, Nancy Reagan's press secretary said, they "inevitably talk about horses...
...sporting activities have usually been confined to a day at the races or fishing in Scottish streams, but the Queen Mother, 83, can handle a cue when the occasion calls for it. While on a three-day tour of the Channel Islands, she popped into a young people's center in Jersey. There she was cheekily challenged to a game of pool by Karl Megaw, 17. The regal reply: "Certainly." As she lined up the shot, she murmured, "Wouldn't it be awful if I missed?," then proceeded to render the question academic as she slammed the ball...
...have always liked history," says Actress Faye Dunaway, 43, but when she began researching her role as Spain's Queen Isabella for Christopher Columbus, a TV mini-series to be aired next season, she found that "very little had been written about her." Dunaway did finally turn up a few things, including the fact that Columbus' historic voyage was delayed because "Isabella was fighting the Moors. She was a warrior queen. She actually got out there and fought in full armor." So, naturally, Dunaway followed suit. "It was awfully awkward," she says, though the actress had it easier...