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While appearing to own the Queen's English, Eban was not to the manor born: he came from the extremely modest fringes of Anglo-Jewry.
Now, one might argue that the dignified pomp of Queen Elizabeth II is preferable to the tawdry grandiosity of Silvio Berlusconi, Madonna, or Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders, for example, has denounced Queen Beatrix on several occasions as a leftist, elitist, and multiculturalist.
To them, the queen seems almost anti-Dutch.
Queen Victoria, mostly of German blood, did not regard herself as a monarch of Britons alone, but of Indians, Malays, and many other peoples, too.
Whether he wishes to sing God Save the Queen at public events seems a rather trivial matter.
Paraphrasing Katherine Hepburn in the movie The African Queen, religion allows us to rise above wicked old Mother Nature, handing us a moral compass.
An Indian beauty queen, Madhu Sapre, once became an unwitting victim of Indians' sense of national shame at our sporting insignificance.
With a king or queen unable to say or do anything that may cause a whiff of controversy, the monarchy has been stripped of its power of action or reflection.
He ought to tell Queen Elizabeth II that his party has no confidence in Her Majesty's government, and humbly suggest that she ask Labour Party leader Ed Miliband to form a new one.
PRINCETON - The euro crisis and Queen Elizabeth's recent Jubilee seem to have nothing in common.
The EU does not have a Queen Elizabeth.
In the second ballot of France's presidential elections, he will prove to be a Queen or more like a King maker.
Sarkozy may want to be a combination of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, but in symbolic terms he is also the Queen.
His war on Islam is also, and perhaps even mainly, a war on the cultural and political elites, the Dutch intellectual establishment, the Eurocrats of Brussels, and the liberal-minded queen.
Parliamentarians were offended by press coverage of Queen Caroline's divorce in 1820, and by newspapers' mockery of King George IV.
Some of this had to do with his ambivalent anglophobia and his distrust of his mother, Queen Victoria's daughter.
LONDON - From next year, on swearing allegiance to the Queen, all members of Britain's House of Lords - and I am one of them - will be required to sign a written commitment to honesty and integrity.
I drove in the papal cavalcade along the motorway from Edinburgh, where Benedict met Queen Elizabeth, to Glasgow, where he celebrated an open-air mass.
Many incorrect stories were circulated. False rumours that the Holy Koran had been burned in demonstrations, false information on the status of Islam in Denmark, incorrect translations of what our Queen had said, etc.
Whether he wishes to sing God Save the Queen at public events seems a rather trivial matter. The remarkable thing about his brand of leftism is how reactionary it is.