Word: victoria
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...would relinquish Roddy, in the face of public criticism. Chances were that the answer would be no. The princess, after all, had family precedent on her side. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII was Prince of Wales, he had numerous well-publicized liaisons while he waited for Queen Victoria to surrender the throne...
...Kibworth became ever after a touchstone of the boys' halcyon youth. "They had their own cow in the pasture, their own rookery in the elms, and, best of all, the railway ran past the bottom of the garden," writes Fitzgerald. "In memory it was always summer, with the victoria plums ripening on the south wall...
What becomes a legend most? The lace-trimmed cotton knickers displayed by Cockney Comic Marty Feldman once belonged to Queen Victoria. A collector of 19th century furniture and art, Feldman figured that nothing would be more Victorian than the royal underpants, so when he spotted them at a London auction he laid out a bloomin' $320 for the bloomers. Besides, patriotic to the nines, he "wanted to preserve part of England's heritage and to keep an Englishman's hands on Queen Victoria's drawers." She would not have been amused...
Many eminent British doctors found the substance of equal use. Dr. J. Russell Reynolds, Fellow of the Royal Society and Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty's (Queen Victoria's) Household wrote in 1890 that he had prescribed cannabis for 30 years and considered it "one of the most valuable medicines we possess." (Did the otherwise straitlaced Queen, a joint dangling from her stiff upper lip, know something we don't know...
Along the way she had written ten novels, numerous short stories, essays and several travel books, winning for her work a respectful following both in Britain and the U.S. Biographer Victoria Glendinning, a British journalist who has lived in Ireland, argues passionately that Bowen is important, not only for her writings but also for her timing. Thanks to the Irish