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...rejected it, arguing that such ex post facto legislation was a violation of Anglo-Saxon legal precepts. So last week the government invoked a rare constitutional process to override the Lords' objections and ensure enactment of the War Crimes Bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Queen Elizabeth this week...
...Great Pretender. London's respected Independent newspaper reported April 1 that Arthur Wynd, a farmer claiming to be the illegitimate son of Edward VIII's "forgotten" twin brother, was challenging Queen Elizabeth II's right to be monarch. As outrage grew over the prospect of a royal DNA test, the paper admitted that it had made up the whole thing...
...laptopping an epic poem on the great explorer. In pursuit of Columbus' lost diary, Roger and Vivian fly to Eleuthera in the Bahamas as guests of a junk-bond financier on the lam. This quasi Milken thinks Vivian knows the secret burial site of a golden crown that Queen Isabella gave Columbus. But what if it was a crown of a different kind...
...become less important in the post-cold war era. Some top brass consider Schwarzkopf too mercurial for the bureaucratic Army job and aren't shedding many tears over his decision to retire. Could the lucrative private-sector offers that Schwarzkopf has received, along with a possible honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, have anything at all to do with the sniping...
Still, these are undeniably salad days for people interested in reading about scandal in high places. Never mind that this has been true for roughly the past 3,000 years. What of the adultery between a queen and a prince that launched a 10-year war and ruined a nation? The Iliad is the place to bone up on that one. Then there was King David of Israel. One day, while strolling on his rooftop, he spied a woman bathing and summoned her (nudge, wink) to his royal presence. After Bathsheba told him she had become pregnant, the King...