Word: royals
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...William boasts six teeth and, of course, a fondness for koala bears. Afterward they were whisked off to clamber up the sacred aboriginal monolith of Ayers Rock. For. a few moments, the couple savored the sunset together. But soon they had to return to earth-and a host of royal obligations...
DIED. Anthony Blunt, 75, impeccably proper curator of the British royal family's art collection from 1945 until shortly before he was publicly unmasked in 1979 as a onetime Soviet spy; of a heart attack; in London. As a scholar of 17th and 18th century European art, Blunt was a model of well-bred civility and fastidious integrity. But as a Cambridge don in the 1930s he recruited Soviet agents, and as a member of British intelligence during World War II he leaked information to the Soviets. Though he was allowed to continue advising the Queen until his retirement...
...strategic airport" that will be able to handle jumbo jets is scheduled to begin in October. Because no flights are allowed from Argentina, the Falklands are even more isolated than they were before the war. Visitors arriving by air must take a slow, cumbersome C-130 Royal Air Force Hercules transport plane from Ascension Island, 4,000 miles to the north. Only passengers with "urgent or high-priority circumstances" are permitted to book seats. The flight, which costs $2,970 round trip, takes up to 14 hours and involves tricky midair refueling. If the crosswinds at Stanley Airport...
...album for the first year alone threatens to be a three-volume work, but the kid could probably cause shutter flutter no matter who his parents were. At Kensington Palace, nine-month-old Prince William the Charmer sat not entirely still for just one more photo session. The young royal intermittently bared his six new teeth, chewed on a daffodil, and hugged his stuffed koala, perhaps in anticipation of the family's upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. Breaking with a tradition that calls for heirs to be left safe at home while their parents travel, Prince Charles...
...will run there until May 1 and then travel to Paris' Grand Palais. It will not be seen anywhere else in the U.S. "Painting in Naples 1607-1705: From Caravaggio to Giordano" is a smaller, edited version of the exhibition that was seen in 1982 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. It contains many loans of the first importance, from Caravaggio's altarpiece of The Seven Acts of Mercy to groups of work by Mattia Preti and Jusepe de Ribera, along with many remarkable paintings by lesser-known artists...