King Calls for Openness
Jordanian protesters demand political reforms (sorry, this link has expired)
Attempt to Prevent Looting
Egypt army secures museum with pharaonic treasures: report (expired)
UPDATE: Looters smash treasures and mummies in museum (expired)
Monaco Royals at the Circus
Playful Prince Albert can’t resist clowning around (photos)
“This Is Not a Snub”
The Queen won’t meet Kate Middleton’s parents until the day of the royal wedding
Bizarre Story of the Week
Was Genghis Khan history’s greenest conqueror?
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The producer of “The King’s Speech” is reportedly planning to cut profanity from the movie to make it more appropriate for young viewers.
Apparently that would make the movie more historically accurate.
The Daily Mail says it looks like Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, isn’t exactly missing him.
The movie “The King’s Speech,” about British king George VI’s struggle to overcome his stammer, has been nominated for 12 Academy Awards. It has already won the Producers Guild of America’s Best Picture award, which is considered a sign that it could also win the Oscar for Best Picture.
Categories in which The King’s Speech is nominated:
Best Picture
Actor in a Leading Role (Colin Firth)
Actor in a Supporting Role (Geoffrey Rush)
Actress in a Supporting Role (Helena Bonham Carter)
Original Screenplay (David Seidler)
Directing (Tom Hooper)
Art Direction
Cinematography
Costume Design
Film Editing
Music – Original Score
Sound Mixing
Lots of good royalty-themed books are coming our way in February! Here’s a sneak peek. As always, publication dates are subject to change.
Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril by King Abdullah II of Jordan. In a candid memoir, King Abdullah discusses the Israeli-Palestinian standoff, the Iraq war, and more.
William & Kate: Celebrating a Royal Engagement by Robin Nunn. Photos of Prince William and Kate Middleton by a leading royal photographer.
She Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor. About Henry I’s daughter Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, and Margaret of Anjou.
From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julia P. Gelardi. Four women of Russia’s Romanov dynasty who were forced to fight for their lives as war engulfed them.
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe by Nwando Achebe. Biography of an Igbo woman who became a king.
Pale Rose of England by Sandra Worth. Novel about the wife of Perkin Warbeck, who challenged Henry VII’s claim to the English throne.
The Tudor Secret by C. W. Gortner. A young man in the court of Edward VI investigates the young king’s disappearance.
The full list of new royalty books will be published on the Royal Books page on February 1.
All of the books listed above look interesting to me, but if I could only choose one of them to read it would probably be King Abdullah’s book because it’s not every day that a book by reigning monarch is published in English. Which book would you choose?
The book Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein is scheduled to be published on January 25 and is available from Amazon.
Constitutional Amendments Urged
Jordan Islamists want to limit power of king (sorry, this link has expired)
Witnesses to Royal Murder to Testify
Top Rwanda genocide suspect trial starts in UN court (expired)
Odd Choice of the Week
Prince Charles to challenge ban on farmland housing
Tacky Story of the Week
Prince William’s future celebrity flings
Silly Story of the Week
Did Prince William’s balding hasten his engagement?
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