Word: regal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beloved on a visit to Sandringham proved entirely too tempting. The sight of newsmen trampling in the woods of what has always been an off-limits winter retreat enraged the usually imperturbable Queen. "I wish you would go away," she snapped at photographers. That extraordinary crack in her regal facade gave credence to a rumor that surfaced in early February to the effect that Elizabeth had presented her son with an ultimatum to marry Diana by this summer, or not at all. Reportedly she had said: "The idea of this romance going on for another year is intolerable to everyone...
...once had a hound killed for losing the scent in a foxhunt. Like unskilled pickpockets, her attendants try to plunder her last remaining jewelry. A marvelously comic doctor-apothecary team (John Bottom and Ron Faber) get the Queen deliriously squiffed on drugs before she attains her final serenely regal composure...
...about the stables, photographing anything that moves," according to the Queen's press secretary. At one point, the reporters threatened to upset a Shetland pony carrying the Queen's three-year-old grandson Peter. These breaches of protocol produced some rare cracks in Her Majesty's regal facade. "I wish you would go away," she snapped at swarming newshounds. Prince Charles, too, had some unusually sharp words when he addressed a group of Fleet Street's finest. "I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy New Year," he said with a bitter grin...
...final week and a half of the trial had been devoted exclusively to the star defendant, Jiang Qing, 67, the fearsome Mme. Mao. Proud, defiant, nearly regal in her contempt when the trial opened almost seven weeks ago, the onetime actress turned its final hours into a dramatic shouting match. Presiding Judge Zeng Hanzhou interrupted her concluding remarks on the grounds that she was using her right to speak to "smear and vilify party and state leaders," which, he said, was a "counterrevolutionary" offense...
...parts in Europe last summer while the company was on tour. In the current New York season, she appears in Bizet's Symphony in C, Raymonda Variations, Valse Fantaisie, Walpurgisnacht and Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3. Of these, the lyrical adagio in the Bizet is the most difficult, demanding regal presence and an enigmatic, almost witchy sexiness. But Darci is a very young princess, and the other quality is still beyond her. Nor did it help when, on the second night, a bodice seam split down to the waist. Darci went right on with the aplomb that is already...