Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critics will ultimately judge McMillan is a good question. Will she turn out to be, like Danielle Steele and Judith Krantz, just one more queen of the steamy, scented stuff that the publishing industry calls "commercial"? It's possible. But so far McMillan has not written formula glop. And most of the time her chapters, though they can rank nearly as high as Steele's and Krantz's in breathy descriptions of dressing, undressing and furniture, have a brassy realism that saves them from the trash bin. And even though peace has broken out in the author's life, with...
...Fergie than for Diana, partly because of Fergie's carefree, sometimes careless ways (and not least because she let a Texan suck her toes). The duchess has promised not to write a tell-all, but children's books are allowed. All in all, the second divorce among the Queen's children looks to be as amicable as the first. Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips (remember him?) live near each other and, though both remarried, share parenting. Now for that third split...
...fragility of the royal world. Bradford previously wrote a biography of George VI, and the strongest chapters of this book deal with Elizabeth's first 30 years, where Bradford's sources are strongest. The pages teem with hardy secondary players--the spoiled, resentful Duke of Windsor; the Queen Mother, tough as tacks but effervescently charming; the ambitious, meddling Lord Louis Mountbatten...
...sovereign that she loved the divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend and wanted to marry him. Scarred by memories of the abdication and cautious in her role as head of the Church of England, Elizabeth turned her down; Margaret never really recovered, and the episode may have left the Queen permanently incapable of disciplining her family. Margaret's subsequent marriage to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones exploded in mutual infidelities after a few years. Elizabeth could be formidably cool. Once, Margaret threatened to jump out her window if a friend who was hosting a house party did not leave his guests...
...Harvard, had sought to broaden the magazine's audience, bringing in younger writers and running more stories on social and cultural trends as well as politics. He gave a forum to such provocative voices as Camille Paglia, author of a recent psychological hatchet job on Hillary Clinton titled Ice Queen, Drag Queen. Circulation crept up, from 94,000 to 100,000; more significant, advertising revenues increased...