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...been up to Oscar Wilde, there would be no auction this week of the private property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, or any such event. Writing a sonnet in 1895, "On the Sale by Auction" of John Keats' love letters to Fanny Brawne, Wilde compared the "brawlers of the auction mart" to the Roman soldiers who tossed dice for the garments of Jesus...
...care that among the Windsor-family items being put up on the block are a pair of silver asparagus tongs, two Portuguese silver Fu dogs and a silver vesta case for, I suppose, one's silver vesta. I don't care either, but I do think there is something crummy about the blithe auctioning off of things like love letters, diaries and personal photos. The Windsors always seemed a pair of yacht-hopping nitwits to me, and I'm fairly certain that their expressions of passion are not to be compared to Keats', much less to Jesus'. But they were...
Eton College--an all-boys preparatory school nestled below the Elizabethan turrets of Windsor Castle--boasts Prince William, heir to the British throne and son of Princess Diana and Prince Charles, among its list of talented scholars...
ELIZABETH ("THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND") WINDSOR AGE: 71 HEIGHT: 5 ft. 3 in. OCCUPATION: Mostly waving BEST PUNCH: Stayed (surprise) silent. But a source at Buckingham Palace told reporters, "Mr. Gallagher should apologize. If he has any class, any at all, he will...
...Sets on Britannia The Royals shed no public tears for Diana, but the decommissioning of their yacht, Britannia, got Windsor chins quivering...