Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of Charles Spencer's ugly divorce hearing in South Africa ? his estranged wife, Victoria Lockwood, is accusing Princess Diana's brother of committing adultery with 12 women during the course of their 8-year marriage ? London's Sunday Times has branded Spencer "one of the most reviled men in Britain...
Perhaps he found his text for this compartmentalized life in the book The Young Melbourne, which he once told me was his favorite. It is the story of William Lamb, Queen Victoria's early Prime Minister, who presided at the height of the British Empire. It describes a world in which the young British aristocracy served brilliantly in Parliament, finance and the military during the weekdays but then romped through each other's bedrooms on the weekends. They seized what they wanted--women, land and office...
...become a minor celebrity. Russian Mir watchers praise her dignity and "big-screen beauty." "She's kept strong," says a fellow cosmonaut's wife, "and kept the kids out of the public eye." Tsibliyev, a colonel, could still lose his stripes. But son Vasili Jr., 19, and daughter Victoria, 14, are not worried. "Papa's back," says Victoria. "That's all that matters...
...King George III, symbolizing British control over American colonies in the 18th century. Or perhaps we start thinking of the sad genetic malfunctions which run through royal families that are too inbred, a result, ironically, of their hopes to keep their family bloodlines pure. The fact that Queen Victoria passed along her mutated gene for hemophilia to several different European royal families comes up in one biology textbook after another...
...than a saga. The story is less about the band's struggle to record an album then it is about the way the band members spend their afternoons and nights. Gary, uncomfortable and nervous, makes a fool out of himself while shopping for a Christmas present in Victoria's Secret. Mark takes an AIDS test in a free clinic after waking up so hungover that he can barely remember the sex, much less have any idea whether he used a condom. Steve, meanwhile, smokes pot and folds the laundry while watching informercials...