Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person retinue had not paid their room and board for more than two months. The tab: $1,475,516.34. The hotel called Hollywood police-most of the department once worked part-time for the sheik-who arrested him on a felony fraud charge. Sheik Fassi cooled his royal heels in jail for six hours, waiting for a bail bondsman to put up $1,000. "What is $1,000?" sneered Saud Al Rasheed, a family spokesman, who says the hotel bill will be paid promptly. "One thousand dollars we spend on tips for waiters...
...dimensions of the clan's royal style became clear in January 1981, when the new Miami house of the youngest Fassi brother, Tarek, then 17, was burglarized. Fourteen diamond wristwatches, 20 diamond rings, a dozen gold medallions and $480,000 in cash were stolen-and Tarek promptly bought a new house in a tiny, rich enclave called Golden Beach. At first Tarek's breaches of decorum were merely eccentric: he commuted to Florida International University, 20 miles away, in his helicopter, and draped his estate's palm trees with Christmas lights. But then, in violation of zoning...
...security cars and a van. They also became chummy with Alvin Malnik, a Miami attorney said to have underworld connections. It was not until last February, however, that their image problem got serious. After a series of reports that they were mistreating their help, Dade County police raided the royal couple's condominium, searching for an "enslaved" servant. A melee ensued. Police say the princess screamed at them, shouting, "I'll break your nose!" She did not, but one policewoman charges that Hend bit her arm. "It was very much a bitch-and-bite match," says...
When Prince Turki and Princess Hend moved to wealthy Indian Creek, neighbors were soon taken aback. The prince's small herd of goats began to roam onto adjacent lawns. Last spring the royal couple threw a party for their three-year-old son that featured circus performers, an orchestra, fireworks, kosher hot dogs and a birthday cake on which live flamingos perched. The final straw came when the prince and princess renovated their house-once the staid Woolworth mansion-in dissonant contemporary style, including a discothèque and a device that simulates thunder. "It looks," a local arbiter...
STRATFORD, Ct.--The English have always been fascinated with the history of their own monarchy. Just as the ancient Greeks knew the stories when they attended dramatizations of their tragic myths, so too the Elizabethans were familiar with the outlines of their royal history but never tired of seeing it portrayed...