Word: royalities
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Finally, Sawano consistently holds Diana up to the archaic model of "duty and sacrifice" which she claimed that Diana lacked but which Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne exemplify. Duty to whom? The royal family, entrenched in their notions of duty, have successfully isolated themselves from the British public, to whom their duty ostensibly lies. This fact is as true today it was during World War II. Of course, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne do the requisite charities. But do they touch people, both physically and emotionally the way that Diana did? Unlike her royal counterparts, Diana touched people with leprosy...
...American, the word "monarch" can conjure up nightmares of King George III, symbolizing British control over American colonies in the 18th century. Or perhaps we start thinking of the sad genetic malfunctions which run through royal families that are too inbred, a result, ironically, of their hopes to keep their family bloodlines pure. The fact that Queen Victoria passed along her mutated gene for hemophilia to several different European royal families comes up in one biology textbook after another...
Nominees in each category are selected by various organizations as stipulated in Nobel's will. The prizes for physics and chemistry are administered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
...recruited by the Harvard physics department in 1987, but turned the offer down to work at Stanford--said that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences had been unable to contact him that morning because of some confusion over the local area code...
...Fergie notes that being royal means sometimes having to say you're sorry (TIME Daily...