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...Such a scene may not play well in the press, but it's not hard to see why the emotions differed so greatly from the Princess' farewell. As far as the Queen was concerned, Diana brought nothing but a decade of trouble to the House of Windsor ? whereas Britannia dutifully ferried their Royal Highnesses around the shrinking Empire, and subsequently the Commonwealth, for as long as she's been on the throne. And who wouldn't feel their heartstrings plucked by the strains of the now ever-so-poignant lyric "Britannia Rules the Waves...
...Queen then sat with commoners at a luncheon of which Blair was host. But at Windsor Castle that evening, she returned to the forms of the ancien regime, giving a ball for foreign royals: seven Kings, 10 Queens, a grand duke, 26 princes and 27 princesses. The castle itself provided an apt symbol of royal rejuvenation. The Queen famously called 1992--a year of separations, divorce and scandal--her annus horribilis. The emotional low point may have come on Nov. 20, her 45th wedding anniversary, when Windsor Castle caught fire. Now, just in time for the 50th anniversary, the restoration...
...home to the City of Cambridge's Council on Aging, a food pantry, and Windsor House, which provides daytime care for the elderly...
...Canadian citizen who was born in Wales and reared in England, I have made major adjustments in my views of the monarchy during the past weeks. The House of Windsor last served a purpose during World War II, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mum) chose not to escape to the safety of remote Balmoral...
...emerges, one that sees them less as a family than as a confederation of strange ducks and isolated boobs whose presently debased and demystified state may have been ordained when they made their first bargain with the p.r. devil and changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor during World War I. "We recognize them for what they are," Kelley quotes an anonymous viscountess as saying. "They are undereducated and ill-informed Germans, and they need our help...