Word: queens
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...volley of stories detailing the palace's behind-the-scenes fury ended up backfiring. The public sympathized with the 32-year-old mother of two who had strayed into the sights of such heavy artillery. The next day Charles Anson, the Queen's press secretary and the source of some of the vitriol, issued an extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, public apology to the monarch and Fergie. Anson was not the only insider to spill venom, but he accepted "full responsibility" for what some people had begun to call the "Mean Queen Machine." The next step in damage control was to negotiate...
Fergie's official duties were suspended, but the royal family did its level best to give the impression of business as usual. The Queen turned up for a scheduled visit to the University of Surrey, where she chatted and joked. And Andrew? According to a palace source, the duke "is calming down, but he is bitter." Fulfilling one of his official engagements, the man once dubbed Randy Andy alighted from his Jaguar at the Contemporary Dance Trust headquarters in Central London with a broad smile and a wave at the crowd of bystanders. It was in stark contrast...
...precisely that these are ordinary people with ordinary problems," said Lord St. John of Fawsley, a British constitutional expert. He pointed to "the prevailing climate of moral opinion" that accepts divorce. The royal family, if anything, has had more than its share of split-ups: Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, ended her marriage with Lord Snowdon 14 years ago, and Andrew's sister Princess Anne is separated from her husband. Charles and Diana, frequently apart, struggle with widely rumored private strains. The Queen's marriage to Prince Philip is the only one that remains resolutely correct...
During the 1936 constitutional crisis over the engagement of King Edward VIII -- later the Duke of Windsor -- and American divorce Wallis Warfield, Winston Churchill growled, "Why shouldn't the King be allowed to marry his cutie?" Playwright Noel Coward shot back, "Because England doesn't wish for a Queen Cutie." Today many Britons want a taste of soap opera in their royalty. Sarah Ferguson, Duchess Cutie, proved very suitable -- if only temporarily -- for that...
...more than any other country headliner, Brooks encapsulates most of the / complexities of the baby boomers. He was raised in an Oklahoma City suburb, where he listened to Kiss and Queen, and graduated from Oklahoma State, where he was a middling jock and an advertising major. He hides his receding hairline under his Stetson, and once said, "I'd rather be like Schwarzenegger -- perfect teeth, perfect body, full head of hair." He can be a pop nostalgist who croons old Billy Joel songs, a country nostalgist who traces his lineage to the backwoodsy George Jones, or a rock nostalgist...