Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carapace of tradition and ceremony. With voluble outrage and grief to match our confessional age, editorial writers and citizens on the streets told their royal family that business as usual is not an acceptable reaction. Once upon a time it may have been enough. When George VI and his Queen remained stoically at Buckingham Palace to share with Londoners the horrors and dangers of the wartime blitz, he sealed the affections of his people and prepared the ground for the new Elizabethan era. But this, now, is a revolutionary era, and like the Bourbons it has caught the Windsors...
...affinities with his mother, William has recently begun to shoulder royal duties. Last January, the increasingly independent William chose to forgo a Swiss ski vacation with his father and brother and stay at Sandringham with the Queen, Prince Philip and a host of junior royals and friends, including his pal and cousin Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne. He apparently has a close relationship with his grandmother, whom he regularly visits at Windsor for Sunday-afternoon tea and chats about his future role. "Relationships with grandchildren are always easier than those with your own children," says someone who knows...
LONDON: Reports are emerging of a huge rift in the week after Diana's death between the Queen and Prince Charles, over the nature of her funeral. London's Channel 4 News said late Monday that Queen Elizabeth wanted a private funeral that would have excluded the Princess' body from Royal palaces, and refused to fly the flag at half-staff over Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles fought in his former wife's corner by resisting his mother's wishes, and a heated battle ended in his favor after Tony Blair sent in mediators. The Royals claim "the whole story...
...along, she seemed to be saying that true royal behavior--courage and grace--was a gift possessed by outsiders. Like the Queen Mother before her, she won people's devotion by remaining devoted to them. As a princess, she embraced the baby with AIDS. But in her solo career, she sold off her evening wear at Christie's for charity, visited lepers in Indonesia, explored minefields in Bosnia. And the message she sent was a radical one: you don't need a palace to be a princess. You may even need to leave it to become...
...more royal than the royals. She had a higher station than the Queen of England; she was the titular young monarch of her own country and of every other place in the world. She was the sentimental favorite figurehead, who was authorized to sign no treaties, command no armies, make no wars. All she had was the way she looked and sounded and behaved. No model or actress could hold a candle to her. She was the image every child has of a princess--the one who can feel the pea under the mattresses, who kisses the frog, who lets...