Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lima, a music concentrator from New York City, plans to study music composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London, with a focus on Renaissance instruments...
Reasons to Move There: An unusually diverse racial mix, a first-rate cultural life (recent visitors: Wynton Marsalis, the Royal Philharmonic), and a rock-solid economy (tobacco, livestock, seven Fortune 500 companies) all wrapped up in streetscapes borrowed from Norman Rockwell...
Charles Spencer should have been a Tudor. The members of that English royal dynasty, now extinct, excelled at passionate rhetoric, just like that provided by the earl in his unforgettable eulogy at the funeral of his sister Diana. The Tudors too were embroiled in endless marital controversies, though Spencer cannot end his with the finality available to Henry VIII--the thud of the headsman's ax. Still, one may wonder if Spencer was trying to display a similarly majestic, if less fatal, gesture--whether his righteous bombast against the media, delivered ostensibly to deify his sister, was not a self...
...Diana Day ? have been received from members of the public. Sifting through them now are Diana's butler, her lawyer, her elder sister, Treasury chief Gordon Brown and film director Richard Attenborough, among others. Fittingly for the Princess' memory, neither Prince Charles nor any other member of the Royal Family have been invited...
Blair has made the monarchy an integral part of his plan to modernize Britain, and he is now perhaps the most interesting actor in the royal drama. He has an approval rating of 72%, whereas only 45% of the public view the royal family favorably. Because of his popularity, his good counsel and his eagerness to work with them, the royals listen to Blair, and he has handled them ingeniously. As their ally, he shares in the affection and awe that the Queen and the monarchy as an institution still inspire in the public; by urging reform, he distances himself...