Word: royale
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...order, in other words, is intended to protect the alleged victim. Arguably, however, the ban is having the opposite effect. A sensational story about a royal, however minor, would make headlines in some sections of the British press. But any editors considering publishing such a story would have to be certain that any allegations made would not leave their news organizations open to libel charges. Some reports suggest that attempts had been made to sell a story involving the aide and some of the allegations about the royal earlier this year, but none of the newspapers approached took the bait...
...tale appears to contain all the elements of a blockbuster: blackmail, sex, drugs - and a member of the British royal family. On Oct. 28, the Royal Blackmail Plot was splashed across the morning newspapers in the U.K., setting Britons spluttering into their porridge. Two men, according to these front-page reports, had been arrested last month after asking for £ 50,000 (about $100,000) in return for a video purporting to show a royal aide taking cocaine. Some accounts suggested that the video showed the royal engaged in a gay sex act with the aide; in tamer versions...
...This wasn't a collective failure on the part of the British press. Editors, aware of the identity of the targeted royal, have ensured later reports make clear that he or she is not a senior member of the family. But websites all over the world have claimed to know the identity of the mystery royal, and news media outside the U.K. have now added their theories. Some of them are dead wrong. Many of them are right...
PRINCE TOMOHITO, cousin of Japan's Emperor Akihito, attributing his battle with alcoholism to the pressures of belonging to the royal family...
...Rajasthan, a short hop from Udaipur, with 39 suites featuring mod interiors, and gets so excited talking about Ahilya Fort in Maheshwar, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh--a region that Jayasundera feels has been unfairly neglected by tour operators--that he chokes with laughter. "The Indore royal family that owns the small fort were very avant-garde. They had an amazing art collection by the '30s, and they were the first family to build an air-conditioned palace," he says, going on to describe the Labradors that jump in the skiff ferrying guests to nearby islands and temples...