Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really need monarchs in our New World Order? It's a hard question to answer. While the British might appreciate the taxes when the Royal family finally coughs up some dough in April, the sight of Queen Elizabeth in her Wellington boots surveying the fire damage to Windsor Castle wasn't exactly the height of glamor. Is our morale better with royalty, or, in the words of Al Gore, is it time for them to go? Beth L. Pinsker...
...Would have to give up royal box in theaters to Prince or Queen Latifah...
There is a hardy opposition, however, and its best-known mouthpiece is fire- breathing Labour M.P. Tony Benn. "We are still a feudal society, trying to live off whiskey, tweed and the royal family," he sputters. "The fact is that a Prime Minister's powers are derived from crown powers, and they are greater than a President's. A Prime Minister, on his or her own, can create judges, bishops, lords, send troops to the Falklands. Beside this, Di and Fergie are absolute froth...
...might in the current climate question whether a nation needs to underwrite a performance like that. Sue Townsend, author of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, has just published a novel called The Queen and I, which imagines that the royal family has been consigned to a public housing development by a stern republican government that has overthrown the monarchy. The book is both funny and impudent, but it contains a portrait of Elizabeth that is admiring in spite of itself. Townsend plays up Her Majesty's awkwardness, but of all her clan she adjusts best to her alien circumstances...
COVER: The Royal Mess...