Word: queens
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...that Britain wants to stand for...something safe, sane, stable and as everlasting as the Tower of London." And as reassuringly familiar. Generations from now, her performance in that most deceptively difficult of jobs will be the standard by which the world's remaining monarchs are judged. The Queen Mother blended a sense of majesty and a sense of fun so comfortably that national feeling and natural feeling chimed. In the end, she made royalty seem human and humanity downright regal...
Mostly it's the song. Can't Get You Out of My Head, written by former teen queen Cathy Dennis, is one of those weird pop miracles that pile on the hooks and dare you not to listen--it's catchier than Ebola. The rest of Fever is not unlistenable, just unremarkable...
DIED. BRITAIN'S QUEEN MOTHER ELIZABETH, 101, her country's favorite royal and mother of Elizabeth II; in Windsor, England (see page...
...solemn procession and visibly saddened royals; of effusive speeches from black-suited parliamentarians and flowery messsages from the public on cellophane-wrapped bouquets; of long lines filing past the coffin lying in state in the magnificent medieval Westminster Hall. Britain dedicated last week to paying its respects to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother before the final farewell of her funeral in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday...
...overwhelming tone in all the tributes was genuine affection and respect, sentiments the Queen Mum, who died peace-fully in her sleep the previous Saturday at age 101, had invariably evoked during her lifetime. Even though she gave only one interview in the span of a century and never publicly revealed a political opinion or, indeed, very much about herself, Britons felt close to her. With her own brand of happy charm, the Queen Mother, like Princess Diana, had the common touch...