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Originally posted on April 12, 2006:
In the early ’80s, Elvis Costello made an amusing video for his song “Everyday I Write the Book” featuring Prince Charles and Princess Diana lookalikes. I seem to be the only person in the world who remembers this video, so I was pleased to find it online.
2008 update: I’ve removed the original link to the video because it no longer works, but I’m happy to say I was able to find the video on the excellent Yahoo! Music site, and here it is:
“Everyday I Write the Book” is from the 1983 Elvis Costello and the Attractions album Punch the Clock, which is a great favorite of mine. (Elvis Costello himself supposedly doesn’t like it much, but I can no longer find a link to back that up, so who knows, maybe he does.)
John Lydon actually has nothing against the Queen. (You’ll have to scroll down to the item. It’s fourth under the heading “In other news.”)
The Sex Pistols, a ’70s British punk band, recorded an anti-monarchy song called God Save the Queen with lines like “she ain’t no human being.” Here’s a video of the band performing the song:
According to recent gossip, singer Britney Spears is “obsessed” with Princess Diana.
The evidence for this supposed obsession? She has allegedly turned a room into a “shrine” to the princess and she sometimes uses the code name Diana Prince.
Wait a second, doesn’t Wonder Woman also use that name? Oh my God, stop the presses, Wonder Woman is obsessed with Princess Diana, too! Or maybe Britney Spears IS Wonder Woman!
I don’t know if Britney really has a secret super-heroine identity. But she’s welcome to join the World of Royalty Network. There are lots of people there who collect books about princesses. We don’t think that’s weird.
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges was “the toast of 18th-century Paris. So how come the composer… has been forgotten?”
The queen of Persian pop greets the shahbanou of Iran in NY live concert (with photos of the former empress of Iran and other Iranian royal family members)
Here is Empress Farah Pahlavi’s official website
Michael Jackson is reportedly no longer making music with a Bahraini royal family member.
“R&B singer Monica has fans in faraway places, one of whom is the very wealthy playboy Prince Azim of Brunei.”
UPDATE: The prince is reportedly also a generous fan of Mariah Carey:
Prince of Brunei gives Mariah Carey diamond necklace
SECOND UPDATE! Hundreds of people have been visiting this blog in search of photos of Prince Azim! This is all I could find:
PHOTOlink - Azim
According to a report from last year, the prince plans to produce a movie starring Alicia Keys. So if you want to attract his attention, maybe your best bet is to become an R&B singer.
Learn more about the royal family of Brunei here:
Royalty.nu - Royalty in Brunei
“A print of the only photograph of Mozart’s widow, Constanze Weber, has been found in Germany.”
“Jackson has been living on the island nation of Bahrain, the guest of Sheik Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the son of Bahrain’s king.”
Queen guitarist Brian May says Queen Elizabeth is “good at her job.” No word on whether she’s dynamite with a laser beam: Recharged and ready to rock you
If you don’t understand what I’m talking about in this post, this video will explain:
