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...tells me to relax my face by pretending to be the British glamour model Jordan applying lipstick and I can hear an improvement when I say some words that would usually be my downfall: "old school tie" (which I normally drawl, lengthening out the vowels). Hughes agrees that the royal family shares my problems - Prince Charles is so tense that he lives in a "hice" instead of a house. Hughes says he could bring me down to standard RP, or make my voice more Estuary - a loose term for the London accent that spreads into surrounding counties and is loathed...
...says. "Socialists have a furious love of debate, and she's not debating. What does she think about debt, about foreign policy, about economic governance? You've got to talk about this stuff. And you can't talk to party activists like you do to public opinion." Oh no? Royal thinks she can. She promises a bottom-up approach to an electorate disenchanted with France's élitist and sclerotic political culture. She stays away from the abstract nouns beloved of French intellectuals, and makes a very public point of listening instead to voters' concerns, often sent to her heavily...
Japan is divided into opposing camps of royal watchers: Team Kiko and Team Masako. It is an unusual development. The imperial family, the oldest royal line in the world, is also the most tightly controlled. Its members aren't allowed to have last names, personal wealth, opinions or, for the most part, lives. But the behind-the-scenes tug-of-war over the future of the dynasty has made the royals unexpectedly human--and made Masako and Kiko living symbols of the intense pressure on Japanese women to be both modern and traditional...
...year after year passed without a royal pregnancy, hopes that Masako would become the modern face of the imperial family gradually died. It was clear that she had failed in her one traditional duty: to produce a male heir. All her education and accomplishments meant nothing by comparison. Japanese tabloids cast aspersions on her patriotism and her toughness, and not long after she gave birth to a daughter, Aiko, in December 2001, Masako sank into a depression. Now she has gone from an icon of style to an object of pity. "She's been crushed," says housewife Hiroko Nishiyama...
Katie Couric introduced the segment with archival footage of CBS News airing baby snaps of Prince Charles. That self-serving comparison had a kernel of truth: celebrity offspring are like royal heirs. The parents hoist their issue before the throngs to prove, if not their virility, like kings of old, then their humanity...