Word: sandringham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Britain died of natural causes in 1936. Last week the - biographer of Lord Dawson, who was the King's doctor, disclosed that the monarch was actually put to death by lethal injections of morphine and cocaine, administered as he lay dying at the royal residence of Sandringham. Dawson's notes say the King's death was induced not only to ease his pain but to enable the news to make the morning papers, "rather than the less appropriate evening journals...
...released the expected announcement on the Queen's stationery last week, a crowd had gathered outside the gates. Meanwhile, Fleet Street was in a tizzy of breathless speculation that began in January after "Fergie" was invited by the Queen to a week-long New Year's house party at Sandringham...
ROYAL SECRETS TAKES US step-by-step through the "downstairs" of Buckingham Palace, Sandringham, and the other Royal residences, dropping harmless chit-chat at every turn. Prince Philip, we harm, visits the kitchen regularly to berate the cooks. Prince Charles hung out there as a child, but by the time he reached 30 he had forgotten the way. Lady Diana, captive in the palace before her wedding, spent so much time in the pantry that The Yeoman of the Glass and China finally threw her out. "Through there is your side of the house. Your Royal Highness," he said, pointing...
...Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. At Claiborne Farm she met the third living Triple Crown horse, Secretariat, before a groom brought out a retired stud at the Queen's request: the legendary Round Table, who was born to a horse bred at the royals' farm, Sandringham Stud...
...picture of Andrew that was good enough for the Mirror's front page. Carraro hustles hard for his art and the $25,000 or so a year it brings him. During one brief period this winter he broke off the chase for Koo at the Queen's retreat at Sandringham and flew to Switzerland, where Koo was rumored to be skiing. Then it was back to London, and off on a fast rumble to Sandringham again, in the sort of automotive projectile that is essential for royal-chasing, a Golf GTI that Carraro says will go more than 100 m.p.h...