Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parsons and another company has served as construction and program manager for this project since 1976. Expanding enormously since the originally modest plan was prepared in 1965, this airport is now by far the largest and finest in the world, with a major military complex, two commercial terminals, a royal pavilion and the Haj terminal, having a capacity to handle more than a million pilgrims arriving and departing within less than a month each year...
...head of a European royal family asked me to design a unique gift for a fellow monarch," Bijan adds as he darts excitedly around his store (open by appointment only). "I wanted to make something so American. I wanted to design a gun that people who hate guns would want to have and touch and play with because it's so pretty." So he had a leather handgrip fashioned for a .38-cal. Colt revolver at his workshop in Florence, inlaid the cylinder with 56 grams of 24-karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch...
...reason for the failure, perhaps, was that police duties were split. The local district covered the palace, while a royal squad guarded the Queen. The two details were combined into one last week under Deputy Assistant Commissioner Colin Smith, 41, who scarcely two months ago came to London from a provincial force. Last week, too, the commander of the local district resigned, his highest-ranking subordinate at the palace was transferred, and four other officers face possible disciplinary action. In a way, Fagan could take credit for one thing: his visit presumably tightened security before someone with more sinister motives...
...neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal presence crashing through a mirror, trying to hide inside his own image...
...Marshal Von Ribbentrop, third in the Nazi hierarchy, and Hugh Selwyn himself. Mauberley's assignment: to persuade Wallis to prop up the Duke as a figurehead who will "rule" a United Europe controlled by fascists from England and Germany. Ribbentrop dangles a glittering prize before the duchess: "Your Royal Highness perhaps does not understand that there are crowns that have never yet been worn by anyone." She replies without hesitation: "How long do you think we might have to wait...