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...Have you had any royal-family feedback after your fascinating performance as the Queen? -Jo Wynter, Cooktown, AustraliaNo. I was invited to dinner by the Queen after I'd done it, and I don't think she would have done that if she'd hated it. I couldn't go, unfortunately...
...Dowden is director of the Royal African Society
After ten years of violence, the Maoists, the political parties, and the royal family have agreed on a roadmap for the future of Nepal: a Constituent Assembly (CA) in 2008. The CA plan required many long meetings, boycotts, riots and lives before all the three key players in Nepal could agree on a set of rules. The eventual compromise was a win-win solution for everyone. The political parties had their demands for elections met, the Maoists were able to induct direct representation in the elections, and the royal family was allowed to continue till after the CA when...
They have to. In 2005, Bhutan's fourth King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, announced that he would abdicate in favor of his son and that the country, after nearly a century of mostly benign royal rule, would become a constitutional monarchy with a popularly elected parliament. Most Bhutanese were horrified, fearing that democracy could lead to instability, as it had in neighbors such as Nepal and Bangladesh. But the King insisted, explaining that no nation should be in the hands of one person and that change should happen while the country was still peaceful and prosperity was growing...
...comes as Bhutan grapples with its shifting place in the world. Squeezed between giants China and India, it has slowly opened up over the past few decades. There still may not be a single stoplight in the capital, Thimphu, but there are Internet cafés. Bhutan's royal leaders are prodding their tiny nation into the rushing stream of globalization. "The concerns of the nation are the same--everyone is aware of them," says Dorji Namgay, an engineer, during a visit to his home by Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering, then a candidate for the DPT. "And while our parents...