Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next stop, the Cayman Islands, the self-styled "world's No. 1 tax haven," with some 420 banks. Nearly a third of the island's 17,000 inhabitants, who pride themselves on their links to Mother England, came out to wave Union Jacks at the royal couple. But the Duke of Edinburgh, whose pet cause is the World Wild Life Fund, stole the show. On the windswept coast, he looked in on the world's first farm to breed the rare green turtle. Sporting a black tie festooned with tiny pandas, he left no doubt where...
...Queen's motorcade after she arrived in Mexico did not care a shred for the buttoned-up English protocol of proper dress. Bare-bellied American and Canadian tourists in bathing suits and bikinis, their well-smeared bodies glistening in the sun and 85° heat, shouted as the royal pair, accompanied by Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, motored by en route to Acapulco. President De la Madrid was gracious and warm, and in their respective remarks, both the Queen and the President agreed to let bygones of the Falklands war be bygones...
...this kind of diplomatic tightrope walking that is considered long before the Queen packs her traveling kit. Nearly a year before she gave her first royal wave (a sort of gentle, repeating karate chop with the hand slightly cupped), her schedule for the entire tour had been mapped out to the minute and the mouthful. Last November the Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea, walked every inch of the path that the Queen will tread during her tour. Everywhere she goes, the Queen is equipped with a precise tip sheet briefing her on names and issues to be either...
...Travel light" is not a royal maxim. The logistics of the Queen's retinue rival that of a small army. Her luggage alone is staggering: half a dozen stout leather trunks, hat-and shoeboxes, two queen-size 6-ft. wardrobes for ball gowns. No spifty designer luggage for Her Majesty, but a motley array of well-worn pieces, some of them hand-me-downs like the slender parasol case inherited from her grandmother Queen Mary. An intricate system of labeling and cross-referencing keeps her voluminous wardrobe and matching accessories in order. The system is managed...
...Queen never travels without cases of Malvern spring water from the hills of Worcestershire, a monogrammed electric kettle for the royal cup of China tea, her own kid lavatory seat and an attache case filled with the homeopathic remedies that her granny reared her on. An ever present handbag (she would sooner go outside without shoes than leave it be hind) is her security blanket: it gives her something to do with her hands and holds her glasses and makeup...