Word: monarchical
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...Within a few nights of the Ice Dream, Roy and H.G. had accused every country (except Australia, of course) of cheating, mercilessly mocked ice dancing and run a poll on Prince Albert of Monaco. (You choose: The monarch is a) an awesome spunk, b) a fully sick goose, c) a dork or d) a tight, up-his-own-date dickhead.) They were also receiving some 2,000 emails per day, pulling in an awesome audience share in Australia of more than 40% - although, admittedly the nation's population is the same as that of New York State...
...claims that the motives for Rahman's death were "personal, not political." But Rahman, like Karzai, was a royalist, and some diplomats believe the killing was the Northern Alliance's way of demonstrating opposition to the planned return to Afghanistan this spring of Mohammed Zahir Shah, 87, the exiled monarch. An Afghan patriarch was heard muttering at the funeral: "This killing is a clear warning to Zahir Shah's people...
...powerful women with scepters are out of luck. The former mayor of New York City visited London last week and received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth for his leadership on Sept. 11 and its aftermath. But U.S. citizens, unlike subjects of the Commonwealth, don't kneel before the monarch, and so Rudy stayed upright. Giuliani received a silver cross and a star pin, but despite being compared to Winston Churchill during the blitz, he is not entitled to affix an official "Sir" before his name. Later he and his companion JUDITH NATHAN took in the sights and met Prime...
...wonder Queen Elizabeth II has commissioned four photographic self-portraits to celebrate her golden anniversary as Britain's monarch; the picture of her scandal-plagued family, after all, isn't getting any prettier. Already viewed as somewhat of a rambunctious royal, PRINCE HARRY reportedly had a marijuana and alcohol problem. Last summer, according to the News of the World tabloid, Prince Charles ordered his younger son to spend a day with hardcore heroin addicts at a South London rehab center. It apparently was a ploy to scare the then 16-year-old Eton student straight; sources at St. James...
...reports that an anonymous new novel 'The Fortified Castle,' which is drawing rave reviews in the Iraqi media, is in fact the second work of that coy romance novelist Saddam Hussein. His earlier effort 'Zabibah and the King,' about a torrid but noble romance between an embattled monarch and a brave married commoner, is due to be turned into a 20-part TV series. The new one has a war hero falling in love with a Kurdish refugee from Northern Iraq - presumably not one fleeing from his vicious bombing of Mosul...