Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three cheers for little Prince William Arthur Philip Louis [July 5]! It's splendid to see the British lavish all that affection on the royal family and its newest member after fighting a war that leaves a big debt...
...birth of a healthy, wanted baby anywhere in the world is always cause for rejoicing. The maudlin delight that the new royal baby in England was male is sickening. England's greatest decades have always been in the reigns of its Queens...
Unlike the U.S., which has a great stake in maintaining neighborly relations with Latin American nations, Britain is keeping economic sanctions against Argentina. The Royal Navy plans to continue denying Argentine ships and aircraft access to a 200-mile zone around the Falklands. The exclusionary zone may be maintained at least until the end of August, when British military engineers expect to complete expansion of the runway at Port Stanley for use by a squadron of Phantom jet fighters and Nimrod reconnaissance planes. Britain intends to establish a permanent garrison of some 2,500 troops in the Falklands, as well...
...gross and scandalous lapse of security in her 30-year reign," Queen Elizabeth II was abruptly awakened by an intruder early one morning and forced to spend an eerie ten minutes conversing with him. The visitor had evaded guardsmen, bobbies, servants, surveillance cameras and electronic devices to reach the royal bedroom, one flight up from the palace grounds...
...scaled a 10-ft. wall topped by spikes and barbed wire, shinnied up a drainpipe, and climbed through a window to roam the vast palace corridors. Fagan must have given Her Majesty quite a start. Reportedly, he wore jeans and a dirty T shirt, and dripped blood on the royal bedclothes from a lacerated hand. He cradled a broken ashtray as he sat on her bed. But he made no threatening moves against the 56-year-old monarch, preferring instead to chat about the coincidence that each of them has four children. Pagan's mother Ivy told the Daily...