Word: royals
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...decision to rebel came with agonizing difficulty to most patriots. Torn between a traditional love for the monarch and a growing conviction that his surrogates were abusing the royal prerogative, many like Quincy felt a crushing ambivalence toward their colonial rulers. Indeed, despite his vehement rhetoric, Quincy had once actually defended Hutchinson from the "Rage-intoxicated Rabble" who attacked his home years earlier upon passage of the Stamp Act of 1765. This kind of contradictory behavior characterized the actions of many men of conscience in the late colonial says; it did not come from political opportunism, but from heart-felt...
Long years ow Wedgwood service to the English royal family now include the currently popular commemorative pieces that the family company has produced to celebrate tomorrow's marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. The mutual appreciation that has developed between royalty and Wedgewood pottern began about 11 years before the American Revolution. In July of 1765 one of Queen Charlotte's maids of honor, the Honorable Deborah Chetwynd, induced her Majesty to order a cream service from Wedgwood. Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the pottery empire, executed his first royal order with exacting care, shepherding the entire proceeding, including...
...Church of England approves a new divorce policy if Prince Charles were marrying Lady Diana Spencer in another day, there would be protocol problems aplenty. As late as the 1920s, divorced persons were never received socially by Britain's royal family, and Lady Di's parents are divorced and remarried. The reason for that barrier in social protocol: the British monarch is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which, like the Roman Catholic Church, refuses to recognize divorce or allow a second marriage while the original spouse is still living...
...VIII to abdicate in 1936 so that he might marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, the twice-divorced "woman I love," and led Princess Margaret to reject the divorced Peter Townsend in 1955. Margaret's 1978 divorce from the Earl of Snowden was the first to occur in the immediate royal family...
With that, the Solar Challenger continued its climb to 2,000 ft. and headed northwest toward the English Channel. Five hours and 23 minutes later, after a flight of 230 miles at speeds no more than 47 m.p.h., Ptacek touched down at Manston Royal Air Force Base on the southeastern coast of England some 20 miles north of Dover. His odyssey might have made Icarus drop with envy. In a historic feat, Challenger had managed to cross the Channel powered only by the glinting rays...