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internet marketing London, 26 JULY: Queen Elizabeth II has ordered a crackdown on cleanliness at Royal palaces after two staff got infected with swine flu. At Windsor one of the Queen’s chorister,… from WN.com – World News
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LONDON – Sorry Ma’am — we just didn’t see it coming. A British newspaper reported Sunday that a group of eminent economists have apologized to Queen Elizabeth II for failing to predict the financial crisis. The Observer newspaper reported that a letter has been sent to the Queen after she demanded, during a visit...
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LONDON — Sorry Ma’am – we just didn’t see it coming. A British newspaper reported Sunday that a group of eminent economists have apologized to Queen Elizabeth II for failing to predict the financial crisis. The Observer newspaper reported that a letter has been sent to the Queen after she demanded, during a visit...
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Playing a living, universally known figure has to be one of the biggest challenges an actor can face. That’s what makes Helen Mirren’s performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frears’ “The Queen” such a marvel. Mirren bears only a passing resemblance to her majesty, and “The Queen” is a fictionalized extrapolation of the...
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Anthony Blunt – English gentleman, art adviser to Queen Elizabeth II and Soviet spy – felt the decision to give British secrets to the Kremlin was “the biggest mistake of my life.” Blunt wrote of his remorse in a 30,000-word memoir completed shortly before his death in 1983 and released Thursday by the British...
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LONDON — It began with youthful idealism and ended in bitter regret. Anthony Blunt – English gentleman, art adviser to Queen Elizabeth II and Soviet spy – felt the decision to give British secrets to the Kremlin was “the biggest mistake of my life.” Blunt wrote of his remorse in a 30,000-word memoir completed...
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LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II took to the River Thames in a steam launch Monday to watch red-suited boatmen carefully count all her swans. A Buckingham Palace official said it was the first time the queen was on hand for the venerable practice of “Swan Upping.” The annual census of the Thames’ swan population...
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The world’s oldest man has died!! 113-year-old World War I vet Henry Allingham passed away on Saturday in the English coastal town of Ovingdean. Allingham chalked up his long life to “cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women” and sources close to the war veteran said he “possessed a great spirit of fun.” Live life to the...
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