Word: royalities
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Capping off an outstanding season, the men's heavyweight crew team took the Ladies' Challenge Plate at England's Henley Royal Regatta on July...
LONDON: Since England got knocked out of the World Cup, Britons have had to find other things to fret about. Northern Ireland has been obligingly explosive, of course -- and now that other old standby, the royal family, has offered up its requisite amount of gossip. Wednesday a spokeswoman for Prince Charles confirmed that Camilla Parker Bowles, the Prince's longtime mistress, has met Prince William for the first time. When Diana was alive, Camilla was kept very much in the shadows. Her sudden flurry of interest in Charles' son -- they reportedly got together three times over the last month...
...Indeed, the news gave Britain's two biggest-selling tabloids -- the Sun and the Mirror -- something to splash on the front page, with both claiming a "World Exclusive." With so little to go on, the royal newshounds were reaching: "Camilla was extremely nervous," claimed the Mirror, "but very relieved she'd finally met Prince William.'' The Sun told us the meeting was "amicable," consisted of "small talk" and lasted for "thirty minutes." Still, at least this "world exclusive" has a basis in fact -- and coming in the form of an announcement from the Prince, has a very public ring...
...scientists can say for sure is that these are definitely dinosaurs and that they definitely have feathers. And that alone is a big deal, as the paleontologists involved in the discovery are swift to point out. "It is," says Philip Currie, of Canada's Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and a co-author of the Nature report, "one of the most exciting discoveries of the century, if not the discovery of the century...
Indeed, Shakespeare is enjoying a good season. The Royal Shakespeare Company is finishing up its most extensive U.S. visit to date, a six-week run that began at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is now at Washington's Kennedy Center--where its no-star production of Hamlet just set a house record. Helen Hunt, fresh from her Oscar, will star as Viola in Twelfth Night, opening in mid-July at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. R&J, a quirky, all-male version of Romeo and Juliet, is creating buzz off-Broadway. And just arrived in New York, following a nationwide...