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...August 1805, eight months after he had unceremoniously crowned himself Emperor of the French, Napoleon was up to his coronet in complications. His invasion of England, announced 18 months earlier, had bogged down on the beaches near Boulogne. His fleet floundered useless, bottled up by the British at Ferrol. His treasury lay empty, and all across Europe his prestige was ebbing. On Aug. 13, Talleyrand brought word that Austria and Russia were hastening to mount a massive attack on France...
...days of old, when peers were bold, and life peeresses weren't invented, Britain's House of Lords decreed that when a member rose to speak he must be "uncovered"-meaning wearing neither hat nor coronet. But Baroness Burton of Coventry, 61, feels positively naked without one of her "super-trilbys" on. And besides, she trilled to the Lords' procedural committee, every time a lady doffs her hat just to do some talking, she wrecks the hairdo. With matters thus brought to a head, the committee waived the 344-year-old rule, allowed that the girls could...
This month Steirman tried again with Coronet, a 25-year-old offshoot of Esquire, that was put to death in 1961; although it had a monthly circulation of 3,000,000, it was losing big money. Steirman's revival bears only superficial resemblance to the earlier magazine. Even the title may not be his: Esquire sold it to Reader's Digest, which is now contesting in court Steirman's right to use it. But Paper-and-Ink Publisher Hy Steirman is convinced that his reincarnated Coronet will make money-if he can keep the name...
...Home, Macmillan passed over three far more likely candidates: R. A. Butler, 60, deputy to Britain's last three Conservative Prime Ministers, rebuilder of Tory Party fortunes and everlasting heir apparent to the No. 1 post; Lord Hailsham, 56, the grandiloquent Minister for Science, who gaudily flipped his coronet into the ring, emotionally promising to renounce his title to become Quintin Hogg, M.P., in hopes of becoming P.M.; and Reginald Maudling, 46, the darling of the Conservative backbenches and brainy Chancellor of the Exchequer. An exact U.S. parallel of what Macmillan did would be impossible to draw; the closest...
...least it's supposed to be my autobiography. I'm the coronet because daddy is a noble lord. And the weeds are what I call the chinless boys who go to deb dances. It's hell's boring, actually...