Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queen Elizabeth is reported to have risked 1 pound in the Windsor Castle betting pool. Alas, the unlucky monarch drew...
...they just live their lives discreetly? Many do, of course. Some consider themselves out because they tell other gays, or a few straight friends, or some family members. Some believe - the only important announcement is the first -- coming out to oneself. For every drag queen or gender bender who believes life ought to be street theater, dozens if not hundreds of gay men and lesbians avoid confrontation...
Though in the company of host President Francois Mitterrand and other Allied leaders, including Queen Elizabeth II, Clinton made certain that the men who fought the battle were at his shoulder all day. None was more gallant than hulking Joe Dawson, the captain of G Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, who was the first officer to bring his shattered unit to the ridge above Omaha. Dawson used his native sense and energy to bring order and purpose out of chaos and confound the disciplined Nazi machine. D-day was a battle won by ones and twos and struggling gaggles...
Todorovitch, who is based in Paris and not an old festival hand, found herself crying when the orchestra struck up God Save the Queen on opening night. "I thought that, after 60 years, they had the courage to try and improve on success. I thought the music doesn't change -- Mozart is always the same -- but here are all these young singers who are making him fresh again." Of all opera houses in the world, perhaps only Glyndebourne, with its setting and its devotion to singing rather than to stars, can evoke such tears...
...Cumference pre-vailed--but onlyafter Queen Radcliffe broke a lengthy silence inorder to tell the king to "take back the knight...