Word: royalities
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...tons of Italian marble, silk Oriental carpets, gold-plated faucets and 250 TV sets. It will have four kitchens, for Lebanese, Arabic, Continental and Asian cuisines, and a fifth just for dishing up desserts, run by chefs who can feed 2,000 people on an hour's notice. Their royal highnesses will be able to swim in a lagoon-shaped pool, or catch a film in the 45-seat basement cinema...
...institutions that are strong on religious education. Another project will further cement Alwaleed's stature: the 30-story Kingdom Center, the tallest skyscraper in the Middle East, scheduled to open in downtown Riyadh in 2000. Associates say he is too busy making money to try jumping the queue of royal succession, but he hasn't ruled out becoming a political force...
...than they have in the past. Again and again, the Queen stopped to shake hands with people in the crowds, and at one banquet she sat at a table with a jockey, an autoworker and a policewoman. Surely the happiness of the occasion created an expansive mood, but the royal couple's behavior was not entirely spontaneous. The anniversary was an opportunity to present themselves and their children sympathetically to the public, and to rebut charges made in the days immediately following the Princess's death that they remained too remote and unresponsive. They made the most...
...Queen then sat with commoners at a luncheon of which Blair was host. But at Windsor Castle that evening, she returned to the forms of the ancien regime, giving a ball for foreign royals: seven Kings, 10 Queens, a grand duke, 26 princes and 27 princesses. The castle itself provided an apt symbol of royal rejuvenation. The Queen famously called 1992--a year of separations, divorce and scandal--her annus horribilis. The emotional low point may have come on Nov. 20, her 45th wedding anniversary, when Windsor Castle caught fire. Now, just in time for the 50th anniversary, the restoration...
...tone of the anniversary celebrations signal a dramatic change in strategy for the royal family? No. It has been evolving in the direction of more openness for years. Indeed, the Queen invented the "walkabout" early in her reign, and she sees more ordinary people on a regular basis than do most Cabinet ministers and newspaper editors. In 1992 she began paying taxes and reduced the number of royals who receive state funds (and the annus horribilis speech itself was a notable instance of candor). Nevertheless, the election of Blair and the death of Diana have intensified the process of bringing...