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Britons are waxing prematurely nostalgic for the bitter Brussels sprouts and lumpy "brown Windsor" soup that have turned passengers' stomachs for decades. Plans to demolish London's dark, satanic Euston Station have stirred protests that read as if the bulldozers were marching on Buckingham Palace. Britain's trains, in fact, are not markedly more uncertain, uncomfortable or unwashed than railways the world over, but Englishmen like to think they...
Shortly after the Duke of Windsor, 67, threatened to sue on charges of invasion of privacy, WNBC-TV's scheduled 30-minute Biography of the Duke and his merry wife was scrubbed by the sponsor. Likely reason for the Duke's move: fear that the show might take some of the patina off A King's Story, a 26-episode series of privacy invasions that he has sold to an outside producer...
...mean the Duke of Argyle," one boy corrected. Others decided that he was the Angler Biddle Duke, or Antony Armstrong-Jones, or the Duke of Windsor, or the man who sweeps out Lowell basement...
Author Tisdall does his own scurrilous best to indicate that the aging Victoria was not always alone in the beds at Windsor and Balmoral over which hung photographs of her dear, dead Albert. He goes so far as to describe a mysterious photostat sent to him years ago, and now unaccountably lost, purporting to be the pieced-together fragments of a love letter in the Queen's handwriting, fished from Brown's scrap basket. The basis of the bond between them, he speculates, may have been that Brown was a spiritualist medium through whom Victoria thought...
...biographies, such as Alexandra, Edward VII's Unpredictable Queen, and Marie Fedorovna: Empress of Russia. His latest is about the Queen whose present reputation is about as far removed from gamy gossip as it is possible to get. But in her own lifetime the black-draped Widow of Windsor was openly rumored to be having a Lady Chatterley-like affair with a Scottish gamekeeper, and Scandalmonger Tisdall makes the most...