Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUEEN MUM Just about the last royal left untouched by the breath of scandal...
BEFORE THE BRITISH MONARCHY IS CANCELED, as a chorus of antagonists is calling for, there is one way to strengthen the royal family and make it cost effective. Let Disney acquire it. This would continue the string of privatizations--including British Gas, British Telecom and British Airways--that were successfully engineered in the Thatcher...
...made all hot and gaudy and R-rated. So let's get with it, moviemakers! If the Bard writes about a Moor who loves a Venetian lady, show them naked in bed together, and have Iago woo Emilia from the rear. If the subject is villainy on a royal scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would he be Joe Eszterhas? Would he have shown one of his characters enjoying fellatio--then gasping in horror as a dagger, thrust upward...
...Crown Prince, while more of a traditionalist and an Arab nationalist than the King, is not likely to divert Saudi Arabia from its pro-American course. Meanwhile, Britain ordered the deportation to Dominica in the Caribbean of Mohammed al Mass'ari, a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia's royal family. Saudi Arabia had threatened to curtail trade, including military purchases, unless London silenced al Mass...
Charles' future is constrained by two pieces of 18th century legislation: the 1701 Act of Settlement, which requires the heir not to be or to marry a Roman Catholic (no problem, since Parker-Bowles is not, though she was married to one), and the 1772 Royal Marriages Act, which allows the heir to marry only with permission of the sovereign, or, if the heir is older than 25, to declare his intention to marry and go ahead only if both houses of Parliament have not objected after 12 months...