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...February, the English cricket team - virtual demigods in their country after defeating Australia last summer - were attending a reception amid the Rembrandts and Rubenses in the Picture Gallery of Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth had just pinned medals on the athletes' chests signifying their new status as Members of the Order of the British Empire, and was strolling among them, chatting and laughing with their proud families. She was the star of the show, making people grin - indeed, sometimes erupt with laughter - her own face switching between that studied placidity that is her trademark and a really dazzling smile. After...
...relief came from the spirit of the response: lines around the block to give blood, flowers left at the firehouses, lawmakers on the steps of Congress declaring there are no Democrats or Republicans, only Americans; the band played the Star Spangled Banner during the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, Dublin's shops closed for a day of mourning, Canadian stores sold out of American flags. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS, was the headline in Le Monde...
...years on the throne, Her Majesty has presided over the emergence of a diverse and modern Britain, seen her family become tabloid fodder and declined all interview requests. Her third child, Prince Andrew, 46, a former Royal Navy pilot, sat with TIME's Catherine Mayer and J.F.O. McAllister at Buckingham Palace to discuss his mother's job, her love of horses and the time a footman pulled a chair out from under...
...have to be 5’6, 110 pounds, have perfect turnout and great extensions naturally. I wasn’t willing to deal with that. I also wanted to attend Harvard and needed more time to study, so I quit ballet right before my senior year at [Buckingham Browne and Nichols]. One year later, at Harvard’s pre-frosh weekend, I noticed a ballroom dancing show listed in our events pamphlet. Interested, I decided to go. Standing in the back of the room, ironically behind Miguel Arguellas ’06, who would become my dance partner...
...first time in history, two women were the principals in the traditional 'kissing hands upon appointment'-a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory ... Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first...