Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sail up from Mexico, and the regiment of photographers onshore nudged into position. Cannons roared from the escort frigate Diomede, and a U.S. battery returned the 21-gun salute. After Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia steered toward the freshly painted yellow moorings of the Broadway Pier, her Royal Marine band played, then a U.S. Navy band. Suddenly the craning crowd of 6,000 broke into unbuttoned cheers, while several hundred reporters looked on. There were even scattered choruses of The White Cliffs of Dover and There'll Always Be an England. Queen Elizabeth II had arrived...
...tout Southern California had been sprucing up for weeks. Sunday morning the royals went to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Diego. "We've completely redone the courtyard," said the Rev. James Carroll, "even though they'll just see it for a moment." Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions. At Neiman-Marcus, there was a run on $150 over-the-elbow white kid gloves...
...Queen and Prince Philip are experienced at playing themselves in public, but rarely has the royal whirl been so fatiguingly scheduled. Even the ordinarily laid-back colonials in Mellowland, Fleet Street's sobriquet for California, are stepping lively. - By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Mary Cronin with the Queen and Alessandra Stanley/ San Diego
...Lancashire, must have touched the heart of someone at Buckingham Palace when he wrote a plaintive letter to Queen Elizabeth II in 1980, asking for a job. Within weeks Kenny was hired as a stores (pantry) clerk and assigned lodgings in the staff quarters. Like all employees of the royal household, Kenny had to pledge in writing never to reveal to outsiders what goes on inside the royal residences...
...million), for the unprincely sum of about $2,000. The first installment, splashed across two pages last week, purported to describe the "amorous antics" of the Queen's second son, Prince Andrew, 23, including one putative tryst in a gallery in Windsor Castle hung with portraits of his royal ancestors. Kenny was quoted as telling the Sun: "[Andrew's] dates were always young and fanciable. He was so sure of his chances-and so cheeky-that he would order double bacon and eggs the night before." The story ended with a titillating banner about the Princess of Wales...