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Today, he is King of Nepal, and next week he will return to his alma mater for the first time since assuming the Himalayan nation's throne...
Birendra became king in 1972. Six years earlier, in order to prepare himself for the throne, he wandered Incognito through Nepal, "sleeping in huts, cottages, dusty school buildings, and the open air," according to the Nepalese Embassy...
...point a xylophone is used to simulate time by ticking like a clock; at another, a miniature bridge symbolizes the route over which the Duke returns. Douglas Stein's fine sets are composed of a very few, very impressive pieces rising out of the otherwise bare stage. Each piece--throne, castle, tree and brothel--is meant to stand for a separate sub-world. Each individual costume is also fully realized--the perpetual prisoner appears very realistic, while the nuns wear stylized haloes--but with both costumes and set pieces, the whole lacks any recognizable greater design. Many of the more...
...this occasion, Her Majesty was also something of a power behind the throne. As nominal leader of the Commonwealth, a loose association of 48 former British colonies, she was working quietly "behind the scenes," as one aide put it, to tighten the ties that still bind those nations. She held private talks with each of the 36 heads of government who had assembled in New Delhi for the Commonwealth's seventh biennial meeting...
...Treetops one day 31 years ago that then Princess Elizabeth received the news her father King George VI had died and she had acceded to the British throne. As she hurried off for London, the new Queen vowed to come back some day to the legendary lodge in central Kenya. Elizabeth II, 57, fulfilled that promise last week by making the popular game-viewing spot part of a jubilant five-day state visit to Kenya. The Queen remembered her first visit well enough to note changes, commenting on the loss of trees and inspecting the ruins of the original lodge...