Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question had just been asked: Did he predict failure for the Jerusalem talks? As Jordan's King Hussein was about to answer, a door to his office in Amman's Basman Palace flew open and Abdul Hamid Sharaf, Chief of the Royal Court, burst in with a message. Scanning the note that had been handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation...
...Royal Heritage...
When Shakespeare called England "this royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle," he was merely stating the facts. For more than 900 years British monarchs have bought, begged, borrowed and stolen enough treasure to sink the island: castles, palaces, crowns and jewels, fabulous bric-a-brac, artistic masterpieces beyond prodigality...
Much of the collection has never been shown publicly. Royal Heritage, which starts this week on PBS, was prepared by the BBC as its contribution to Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee last year. The Queen and several members of her family were persuaded to appear on camera and narrate generous portions of the series, with Sir Huw Wheldon, the former director of BBC television, doing the rest. Michael Gill, who produced such outstanding series as Civilisation and America, was in overall charge of the project...
Many eminent British doctors found the substance of equal use. Dr. J. Russell Reynolds, Fellow of the Royal Society and Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty's (Queen Victoria's) Household wrote in 1890 that he had prescribed cannabis for 30 years and considered it "one of the most valuable medicines we possess." (Did the otherwise straitlaced Queen, a joint dangling from her stiff upper lip, know something we don't know...