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...separation is not expected to alter the constitutional status of the royal couple: Charles remains next in line for the throne. Diana can still expect to become Queen, said Major, drawing murmurs of confusion from the House. Perhaps the coronation could be shown on split screen. (See related story on page...
...George we have given the big throne at Yale...
...President of Russia was not just talking about the weather; he was acknowledging a force of history. The Romanovs' throne, Alexander Kerensky's provisional government and Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union all came crashing down when the snows were swirling, the days were cold and the nights were long. In each case the implications for the world -- and the U.S. -- were immense...
...joined the chorus of doom when he told the British Parliament in early November that right-wing opponents were hatching plans to sweep away his government and forcibly return Russia to its unhappy past. Yeltsin's opponents claim it is the President himself who aspires to the dictator's throne with a plan to dissolve Russia's legislative bodies and rule by decree. In a country with a 500-year history of autocracy, such warnings resonate deep within the psyche of a public that is experimenting with democratic government for the first time...
...Queen Elizabeth II in an unusually personal speech last week at a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London in honor of her 40th year on the throne...