Word: royall
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...settlement and return the money to her ex-husband, who would put it in a trust for his sons. A spokeswoman for the Prince of Wales said: "We are keen that all tax dealings should be seen as straightforward and that there should be no question of the Royal Family receiving preferential treatment...
Charles and Camilla: Unsinkable? Prince Charles took the children of his mistress Camilla Parker Bowles to the royal premiere of "Titanic" Tuesday night. One reporter called it "a defiant signal to the prince's critics and a clear sign that his relationship with their mother ? unlike the ship ? was far from sunk." For more celebrity news, click on People Daily...
...storytelling technique, though, is pure 20th century--1937, to be exact, when a young woman, surrounded by funny dwarfs, faced up to an evil sorcerer, cheated death and found her royal destiny. Snow White was a family film, but so were most movies, and it was a musical when perhaps a third of all films had songs. Now there's only a niche family market and virtually no other films are musicals, but the format is unaltered. That was then, and this is then...
REVEALED. The identity of HELEN CATHCART, elusive royal biographer; following the death of her loyal assistant HAROLD ALBERT; in Midhurst, England. Cathcart, it turns out, was really Albert--clothed in literary drag to woo his predominantly female readership. Albert educated himself by reading, escaping a Dickensian childhood--absent father, reviled stepfather--to write Her Majesty, Prince Charles and other genteel accounts of royal life...
Another question would be the rights of the various members of the royal family. The royal family that we envision is not one of privilege, but of duty, where representing the highest morals of the country is considered a mandatory job. What if the heir to the throne didn't want to be king or queen? Forcing such a person to become monarch would be a violation of his or her right of self-determination. Also, such a person, forced into office, would probably be a terrible monarch...