Article: DIARY ENTRIES REVEAL UNPOLISHED ROYAL FAMILY.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Article: Royal Tragedy: Alexandra - the last Tsarina . . .; When ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  August 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Duchess of Hesse was Queen Victoria's daughter and Alexandra ... her sisters got older Queen Victoria assumed the mantle of ... by her brother. But Nicky was equally determined ... At their engagement Nicky showered her with jewels ...

Article: The destination that got the royal oui Andrew Roberts on ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 11, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera by Michael Nelson I. B. Tauris, pounds ... the Tsar of an impending problem, the Queen undertook to telegraph "Nicky" forthwith. The Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary also arrived ...

Article: Cover story: THE DEBORAH ROSS INTERVIEW - Age shall not wither ...
The Independent - London;  October 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... tube". Some might say that Nicky Haslam's giddy world is ... an upper-class thing. (Nicky's mother, Diamond Louise ... Ponsonby, was a goddaughter of Queen Victoria.) Also, magazine clippings of Nicky's various style icons are ...

Article: 'You really can't let 60 go without having a party' Anyone who is ...
Evening Standard - London;  September 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... years not to have heard of Nicky Haslam. He is the man ... mother's godmother was Queen Victoria. "My mother was born on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, so ... Just after the war, Nicky was struck with polio and ...

Article: COVER STORY: Party monster What is Nicky Haslam like! Has ...
The Independent on Sunday;  March 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... the last 20 years or more, Nicky Haslam has been rubbing shoulders ... for nearly half a century, Nicky Haslam casts into shade the ... mother was a god-daughter of Queen Victoria, and most of his cousins are ... himself. To many readers, Nicky Haslam will be best known for ...

Article: Cunard's Queen Victoria Shines a Spotlight on ...
PR Newswire;  October 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Calif., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Queen Victoria was England's first "modern" monarch ... to infuse its newest ocean liner, Queen Victoria, with the modern point of view that ... that guests expect on a liner named Queen Victoria -- a sense of history and grandeur ...

Article: Cunard Line's Queen Victoria Keel Laying Ceremony ...
PR Newswire;  May 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the keel laying for Cunard Line's Queen Victoria was held today at the Marghera shipyard ... second largest Cunarder ever built, Queen Victoria will enter service on December 11 ... will be used in the construction of Queen Victoria and she will take to the water for ...