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...Duke of Edinburgh would have greatly pleased her distant ancestor, Charles I, who insisted that "a subject and a sovereign are clean different things." But when the Queen and Prince Philip celebrate their silver wedding anniversary this week, Charles may be twitching in his burial vault at Windsor Castle. As one part of the celebration, Elizabeth has invited to a commemorative service in Westminster Abbey 100 couples from round the realm whose only connection with royalty is that they share Her Majesty's wedding date...
...price of every sort of "Americana" -that tract of once largely ignored painting, sculpture and craft that stretches from colonial America to the 20th century-is inexorably spiraling: it affects every type of object from embroidered samplers to John Singleton Copleys, from decoy ducks and Windsor chairs to Hudson River School landscapes, and especially for fine antique furniture (a Goddard-Townsend kneehole desk that fetched $12,000 in 1957 recently sold for $120,000). The scramble for Americana is on. But only in America; there are no transatlantic clients...
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...always a disappointment to the late Duke of Windsor that his wife was not entitled to be addressed as Her Royal Highness. In accordance with King George VTs decision, the former Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, after her marriage to the man who had been King Edward VIM, had to be content with being a mere duchess. Now Patrick Montague-Smith, editor of Debrett's, the authoritative guide to the British aristocracy, says it was all a mistake. The rules of British heraldry permit a wife to take her title from her husband, and since Edward remained a Royal Highness...
...detective follows her on his motor scooter from double-feature horror films to the dolphin pond in Windsor Park, he becomes infatuated. He is something of a pixy himself, a regular Zorba the Dick. He consumes huge quantities of yogurt, munches on endless macaroons, and makes a lot of funny faces. Now it is the wife who is unaccountably enchanted...