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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Last week on her blog, Tina Brown let us know about a mysterious two-day gap in the Buckingham Palace diaries, which Brown interpreted to mean that come June, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II would announce to the world the engagement of her grandson Prince William of Wales to his longtime girlfriend. That would be Kate Middleton, the most photographed English lass since William's mother captured the world's imagination in the early '80s. Brown predicts that after a June announcement, there will be a November wedding, probably at Westminster Abbey. Rumor also has it that the queen has been ...
(Feb. 22) -- If you were one of the top members of Britain's royal family and succumbed to what even commoners must confront -- death -- then your country's state-owned BBC television outlet would stop what it was doing and announce your demise. The same has held true for the U.S. president and the British prime minister. The BBC would then drop the program it was showing and present your prerecorded obituary, together with news flashes. But not anymore, according to London's Mail on Sunday. Now, such notables as the Queen's daughter, Princess Anne; her second son, Prince Andrew; and ...
An article at Vanity Fair by former Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers posits that President Barack Obama may well be the most famous living person in the history of our planet:I'm not trying to induce an acid flashback to John Lennon's infamous 1966 comment, "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus." But whether you measure fame in terms of saturation or sheer numbers, it seems indisputable to me that more people know at least something about the new American president than anyone alive, at this point-or any-in the planet's existence.Myers rightly points out that computers have helped ...
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