Word: royals
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...Tuesday morning, Reagan took a highly publicized horseback ride with Queen Elizabeth through Windsor Home Park. Reagan's chestnut gelding, Centennial, donated to the royal stables by the Canadian Mounties, was certainly no match for the spirited steeds the President rides in the U.S. With stiff upper lip, a palace aide described the horse as "reasonable." Reagan paused to exchange inane but affable banter with reporters. Queen Elizabeth, wearing a yellow scarf, listened for a while, looking distinctly displeased, then began to ride off. A moment later, Reagan followed. British and American accounts of the royal family...
...highlight of Reagan's visit to London was his speech to 500 members of both Houses of Parliament, government officials and other guests in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday. The occasion was filled with the pageantry that the British manage better than anyone else. Five Yeomen of the Guard, in Tudor uniforms and carrying halberds, stood behind the President, who was flanked by parliamentary dignitaries in full robes and wigs. At the far end of the gallery, Reagan faced a portrait of George III, as he graciously noted in his speech. The President recalled...
...This has been a tremendously successful visit," she said. Some other Britons were less pleased. The Guardian, an intellectual left-of-center newspaper, called Reagan "a wonderful old smoothie" but, style aside, viewed his speech as cold war rhetoric. Though the leaders of the opposition Labor Party attended the Royal Gallery speech, many backbenchers boycotted it. Members of a left-wing faction held a simultaneous meeting to protest what they viewed as a simplistic, black-and-white approach to NATO-Soviet relations...
Without question, the Pope's trip had posed logistical and security challenges that dwarfed even last summer's royal wedding. Security preparations for his public appearances were the most elaborate that Britain had ever mounted. The police were clearly anticipating publicity-seeking demonstrations, and perhaps even ugly scuffles designed to embarrass the Pope and tarnish the ecumenical gloss of the visit. Most Britons support the Pope's trip, but Special Branch police were watchful of a faction of anti-Pope fanatics, especially in Liverpool and Glasgow. "We are expecting trouble," said one security spokesman...
...fire an eleven-gun tribute to their Nazi guest. It was a dazzling display from a master of spectacle, but like most other things Benito Mussolini did, this muscle flexing was little more than an act: two years later, after a few disastrous encounters with Britain's Royal Navy, his impressive-looking fleet cowered in port, all but useless to the Germans...