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Such defenses are technically correct, but they ignore an anomaly that has been introduced into British public life by none other than the House of Windsor itself. As reigning Kings lost their real power, they had to find other reasons for the monarchy's existence. Queen Victoria, who ascended the throne in 1837, settled on an answer that has come back to haunt her descendants. Along with Albert, her beloved prince consort, she buttressed her sovereignty with the admonition that the royal family would set by example the moral tone for the nation and the empire. Collective good conduct became...
...Victoria proved remarkably blameless in her public conduct, but it has been less and less easy for her descendants. There were problems with her eldest son as Prince of Wales and later as Edward VII -- a remarkable womanizer and rakehell by the standards of any era. But George V and George VI, Elizabeth's father, who assumed the crown after Edward VIII's abdication, were devoted family men who publicly upheld their roles as Defender of the Faith. The present Queen, in the 45th year of her marriage to Prince Philip, has never personally attracted a breath of scandal...
Assistant Editors: Tam Martinides Gray (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Lois Gilman, Adrianne Jucius Navon...
...Jane Frey (Senior Associate Director); James Elsis (Associate Director); Nomi Silverman, Kenneth B. Smith (Assistant Art Directors); Victoria Nightingale (Designer...
...Victoria's relationship with her husband martin (Robert de Neufville) is a case in point . Martin considers himself a liberated man, but he's getting fed up with being Mr. Sensitive. " I've read the Hite report," he tells us; he's even okay with Victoria's bisexuality But he can't help feeling that her telling him what she wants during sex is "like a driving lesson--left, right, faster, slower...." Enough said: she's out of there. She moves in with Lynn, and is eventually joined by Edward, who has broken up with his lover. The three...