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2009 12 08 Prince Charles to remarry

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posted by 방랑군 2009. 12. 8. 13:15



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Prince Charles to remarry

 

 Prince Charles announced his engagement yesterday to his lover of 30 years, the divorced Mrs. Camilla Parker Bowles. After years of intense public interest and debate over whether the couple should walk down the aisle and marry, the British heir to the throne finally decided to tie the knot. The British people are equally split over the news, with a third approving, a third disapproving, and the rest totally fed up with Royal stories. Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair, and Princes William and Harry are all delighted. It will not be a traditional church wedding, as the Church of England frowns upon divorced people remarrying while their ex-partner is still alive. No one yet knows whether or not it’ll be a white wedding. However, the ceremony will take place in Windsor Castle. Camilla will not be a queen if Charles becomes king. Instead she will be a Princess Consort, but she will have the cool-sounding title of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall (Cornwall is a small town in the south-west of England). Many people were originally against Charles’ relationship with Camilla, as Princess Diana blamed Camilla for the break-up of her marriage. In recent years people have accepted Charles’ love for Mrs. Parker Bowles. The happy day is set for April 8. Honeymoon details are unknown.

 

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Kate Moss best dressed and undresed

 

 British supermodel Kate Moss is in the news for two very different reasons today. Number one is that she has been named the world’s best-dressed woman by readers of the magazine Glamour. Number two is that a naked painting of her has just been auctioned for $7 million. With or without clothes, Ms Moss seems to be a newsmaker. Regarding her wardrobe and fashion taste, it is the second year running she has picked up the Glamour magazine award. The winner was decided by a poll - 8,000 readers. Kate beat off some well-dressed and gorgeous rivals – model Sienna Miller was second and Sarah Jessica Parker, of Sex and the City fame, was third. Worst dressed included Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. As for the nude painting, that was sold for $7.3 million by the auction house Christies. It was a life-sized portrait painted by British painter Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund), done in 2002 while Kate was pregnant. Not a bad few days for Kate Moss.

　

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First black US Congresswoman dies

 

 Shirley Chisholm, the first black American woman elected to Congress, and the first black person or woman to run for president of the United States, has died at the age of 80. She was born in a poor area of Brooklyn, New York, but studied and worked hard and entered politics in 1965. She won a seat in Congress in 1969, and remained there until 1982. In 1972, Ms. Chisholm ran for president of the United States, although she got less than seven per cent of the vote. She said,
“I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo”.
Her running was more symbolic that realistic, but did change perceptions of who can run for president. In her book “The Good Fight” she said,
“The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew or anyone from a group that the country is ‘not ready’ to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.”
However, she retired from politics because of her inability to bring about change in the conservative Congress. She said,
“Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs … it is ruled by a small group of old men.”
She always fought for women's and minority rights, and was also a staunch critic of the Vietnam War. She often said she experienced more personal discrimination because she was a woman than because she was black. The Reverend Jesse Jackson told Associated Press Shirley Chisholm was
“a woman of great courage … She was an activist and she never stopped fighting. … She refused to accept the ordinary, and she had high expectations for herself and all people around her.”
She said she wanted to be remembered for ‘having guts’.　




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