Word: queens
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With its evenhanded blend of public spectacle and intimate detail, Sarah Bradford's new biography, Elizabeth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 564 pages; $30), is rumored to have nettled the Queen when published in Britain recently, but it is really the book she deserves. It's all here, the public occasions and ceremonies, the baffling indirections of court diplomacy, the knots and ravels of an intense family life. Elizabeth II, 70 this month, has reigned 44 long years, years spent largely in public. Her lifetime assignment is to be the embodiment of the monarchy, and at that she is impeccable--serene, stately...
...talking to decapitated on a set didn't help. Ultimately, though, her reasons were patriotic. "I want to see the film industry progress here," she says. "Even if it means I'll have trouble paying rent." Gardiner may work on another picture with Stephan Elliott, the director of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. And she still considers offers from Hollywood, some of whose amenities she says she misses. Such as? "Valet parking...
WHAT A STRANGE COINCIDENCE THAT Cunard's flagship, Queen Elizabeth 2, was launched by the monarch herself in 1967. Both the House of Windsor and the money-losing cruise-ship company, a division of Britain's Trafalgar House PLC, have endured a series of public calamities--although at least the toilets haven't been exploding in Buckingham Palace, as they were aboard the QE2 during its infamous Cruise to Hell in late...
...children at school one day last January, drove to a parking lot and shot herself in the head. Although a riverboat spokesman said he had no record of her visits, friends told the local press that the 40-year-old woman gambled frequently at the Casino Queen. The day she died sheriff's deputies were on their way to her home with an eviction order. She left a note on the door explaining that her husband, a refinery worker, knew nothing of their financial problems, although she had pawned their wedding rings and skipped making the house payments...
...East St. Louis is standing pat, betting all its chips on the Casino Queen and praying that new Missouri casinos will not siphon off its customers. In the gambling business, losing is as much a part of the game as winning...