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...gold and white banner, which once again hangs near the Gold Room staircase in A-entryway, is valued at more than $2,000, said Assistant to the House Masters Victoria R. Macy...
...VICTORIA E.M. CAIN...
Hollywood has been cashing in on mad King George and Richard III; now roomfuls of diaries and papers dating back to Queen Victoria could become scripts, beginning with Edward VIII: The Inside Story. In merchandising, the royals have not done nearly as well as The Lion King. That would change...
Laurent (Alain Chabat), a real estate dealer, cheats on his wife Loli (Victoria Abril) but insists--men are such romantics--that she is ever faithful to him. As his mistress replies wearily, "That's probably what my husband says to his mistress about me." Loli is indeed constant, until she meets Marijo (Balasko), a butch musician. Marijo fulfills all the popular lesbian stereotypes: she has short hair, a gruff manner and a weight problem; in the kitchen she's better with wrenches than with sauces. But she also has a knack for intimacy, and that's what Loli desperately needs...
Every member of a royal dynasty shares, to some extent, the same degrading destiny. It was Charles' great-great-great- grandmother, Queen Victoria, who famously advised a daughter to survive the act of love by closing her eyes and concentrating on the British Empire. Marriage in this crowd is a patriotic duty, not a pleasure; and the consort--Philip in the case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship...