Showing posts with label london. Show all posts
Showing posts with label london. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Princess Diana murder claim doubted

London (CNN) -- Princess Diana, murdered? By the British military?

Pshaw, say royal analysts in reaction to news over the weekend of a newly revealed allegation that elite British soldiers were in on Diana's 1997 death in a Paris car crash.

"I'm in my 40s now, and as long as I've been alive, every four or five years there's been another documentary, another book about the assassination of John Kennedy," royal analyst Mark Saunders told CNN. "And to some extent, Diana is rapidly becoming the new Kennedy. It's just continuous. It doesn't stop."
Princess Diana murder claim doubted 

Monday, July 22, 2013

Palace: Prince William’s Wife Kate in Labor | TIME.com



(LONDON) — Prince William’s wife, Kate, has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labor, palace officials said Monday.
Royal officials said that Kate travelled by car to St. Mary’s Hospital in central London with Prince William. Kate — also known as the Duchess of Cambridge — is expected to give birth in the private Lindo Wing of the hospital, where Princess Diana gave birth to William and his younger brother, Prince Harry. She will be looked after by a top-notch medical team led by royal gynecologist Dr. Marcus Setchell.

Palace: Prince William’s Wife Kate in Labor 

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

What is the history of ownership of Manhattan Island, New York? - Yahoo! Answers

What is the history of ownership of Manhattan Island, New York? - Yahoo! Answers

What is the history of ownership of Manhattan Island, New York?

I have just seen a Yahoo question to which several people have responded that the island was bought from the Native Indians for a trivial amount of beads and trinkets (the amounts they suggest vary). I also wonder what happened when ownership of New York (New Amsterdam) was taken over by the Dutch and when it was British. I vaguely recollect a story that the US embassy in London is the only one that is leasehold because the Duke of Westminster will sell the freehold when he gets Manhattan back (I do not know if this is true).

I am being curious. I tend to the view, also expressed in relation to the question that I saw, that who owns land is who owns it: history has its limits!

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