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...jurors were retracing the final movements by Diana and companion Dodi Al Fayed ahead of their fatal car crash in August 1997. The current investigation comes at the behest of Dodi's father, Mohammed Al Fayed, who insists his son and Diana were killed in a plot by the royal family and secret services to prevent the couple's impending marriage. Those charges have been rebuffed by an official French investigation and at least two U.K. rulings that said the deadly crash was an accident. Still, this new inquiry was ordered convened - and it trip to Paris slated as part...
...images, well-developed characters, and humor so dark it’s hard to separate from tragedy define a style that has become synonymous with director Wes Anderson. After cultivating his unique cinematic perspective in earlier films like “Rushmore” and “The Royal Tenenbaums,” Anderson both solidifies and reaches beyond his trademark vision in “The Darjeeling Limited.” His fifth feature, which he authored alongside Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford, is an oddly intense portrait of brotherhood and loss. It chronicles...
...Last month, young Catalan nationalists publicly set fire to photos of the visiting monarchs in Girona. The perpetrators were arrested, but they inspired a string of royal photo burnings in other parts of the region. In otherwise democratic Spain, an "attack on the dignity of the monarchy" is still a crime and the burnings, along with a few other anti-monarchical incidents, have sparked something of a crisis. Is this the beginning of the end for Spanish royal reverence...
...Juan Carlos played such a sterling role during the Transition [to democracy] that it basically shelved questions about the nature of the new political regime," says Paul Preston, professor of Spanish history at the London School of Economics and author of a biography of the King. Since then, the royal family has dedicated itself largely to charity drives, hospital inaugurations, and promoting Spanish interests abroad...
...there are signs that public deference is fading. In the spring, the Catalan Republican Left party promoted a bill that would require the royal family, which annually receives around $10 million in public funds, to turn over their financial records. That motion was defeated, but it didn't stop the same party from last month raising a new proposal that would shift the position of Commander in Chief, which historically has belonged to the King, from the monarch to the Prime Minister. Beyond the maneuverings of an avowedly republican party, other signs of change have appeared. In July, a weekly...