Word: royale
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Think twice before you take on Royal commissions. Or they'll be little more than rhyming emissions." -Fellow British poet Ian McMillan, offering Duffy some advice...
...thought "long and hard" before accepting the high-profile job, and gave the final say to her 13-year-old daughter. Her response? "She said, 'Yes mummy, there's never been a woman.'" Now Duffy, who once said "no self-respecting poet" should have to write about royal weddings (she was referring to the 1999 union between Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones) will be expected to do exactly that, in a role that requires her to write poems for royal events, funerals and various state occasions...
...Duffy takes over from the current incumbent Andrew Motion (who admitted he found writing about royal happenings "very difficult") and has already said she'll give the annual $8,500 salary away to the Poetry Society to fund a new prize for the best collection published each year. As for the "butt of sack" - the 600 bottles of sherry traditionally given to the laureate - Duffy has asked for delivery up front, after learning that Motion hasn't received his yet. (Read: "A Brief History Of The Poet Laureate...
...felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it." -Making clear that she won't write about every Royal event that takes place on her watch. (BBC Woman's Hour...
...time-consuming) as it may be, this kind of handiwork still carries a whiff of the cutting edge here at Brioni, the Italian luxury suitmaker known for dressing everyone from James Bond to Nelson Mandela. The Dutch-born Ter Meulen is one of 12 design students from London's Royal College of Art (RCA) who arrived in Italy this winter for a crash course in tailoring at the company's factory in Penne, a town of 12,000 tucked into the rolling hills of Abruzzo...