Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World was still too new and too far for England's first Queen Elizabeth to make it over for a visit, but by any 16th century standard she was peripatetic. Elizabeth I would set out from London on "royal progresses" through the countryside, prompting an extravagant social frenzy everywhere she stopped. On a typical 1560s tour of Suffolk, one witness wrote, the Queen's hosts laid on "such sumptuous feastings and banquets as seldom in any part of the world hath been seen before." The provincials' Elizabethan party clothes were to die for. "All the velvets...
...even a tornado that were catastrophic for some residents but merely inconvenient for the Queen. There was an umbrella almost perpetually over Her Majesty's head. Split-second schedules, worked out over the past nine months, had to be adjusted and at the last minute readjusted, the royal yacht Britannia 's midweek sailing plans scrubbed in deference to 16-ft. seas, four floors of a hotel suddenly commandeered. At a dinner in her honor in San Francisco, the Queen made light of the drenching conditions. "I knew before we came that we have exported many of our traditions...
...years at the helm. Graves has complied a 10-9 overall record and, as team members attest, has provided the inspiration for many key victories. In 1981, her team won England's Henley Royal Regatta. Graves' wealth of experience in the rowing world has been the Crimson's key asset, team members concurred yesterday...
...slugging another paparazzo who clicked when he should have ducked. Later that night, as his father hopped into a waiting limousine, Albert extended the middle finger of his left hand to the clustered throng of photographers in the universally understood gesture of disapproval. At such moments, no doubt, royal families must wish that the art of portraiture had never moved off the easel. -By E. Graydon Carter
...judge, an arms manufacturer and an aging opera singer heading for a small role in the provinces. Some know, some suspect, some do not particularly care who is in the coach ahead. Some will have turned off history's highway to pursue their private byways before the royal flight is arrested at Varennes. A few will be present when the decree ordering the royal family to return to Paris (and eventually the guillotine) is read out to them. All they will see of that historic moment will be the King's shoes and socks, the Queen...