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After his 20 min audience with the Queen, he was " absolutely besotted " with her according to his daughter-in-law, Esca Hayek.
" The audience with the Queen was followed by a dinner with family and friends at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
He writes that the Tea Meetings were staged as theatrical " battles between decorum and chaos ", decorum represented by the ceremony chairmen and chaos the hecklers in the audience, with a diplomatic King or a Queen presiding over the battle to ensure fairness.
", expressing defiance and transgression of the working class characters ; it was newsworthy when the King and Queen " with the rest of the audience, cocked their thumbs and shouted Oi!
Punch enjoyed an audience including: Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Edward FitzGerald, Charlotte Brontë, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell.
Gladstone had his last audience with the Queen on 28 February and chaired his last Cabinet on 1 March, the last of 556 he had chaired.
At Live Aid, held at Wembley on 13 July 1985, in front of the biggest-ever TV audience of 1. 9 billion, Queen performed some of their greatest hits, during which the sold-out stadium audience of 72, 000 people clapped, sang, and swayed in unison.
I remember thinking ' oh great, they've picked it up ' and then I thought ' this is not a Queen audience '.
During the tour, Queen performed a concert at Slane Castle, Ireland, in front of an audience of 95, 000, which broke the venue's attendance record.
Many Queen songs were also written with audience participation in mind, such as " We Will Rock You " and " We Are the Champions ".
On the first night, Alice Barnett as the Fairy Queen sang the verses directly to the Captain, to the great delight of the audience.
On the morning of 8 February, he marched out of Essex House with a party of nobles and gentlemen ( some later involved in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot ) and entered the city of London in an attempt to force an audience with the Queen.
In the summer of 1986, the band played to their biggest ever audience as special guests to Queen at a festival in Germany attended by a crowd of 150, 000 people.
The Queen is informed by her viceroy of the swearing-in and resignation of prime ministers and other members of the ministry, remains fully briefed through regular communications from her Canadian ministers, and holds audience with them whenever possible.
In the 1970s a further TV dramatisation was broadcast from The City Varieties Theatre in Leeds, with the audience all in Victorian costume and Queen Victoria in The Royal Box.
The ceremony took place in the Musikhuset Opera House, and in the audience were the Queen of Denmark, the mayor of Aarhus and other dignitaries.
In December 1866, sixteen delegates from the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia travelled to London, where Queen Victoria received each in private audience, as well as holding court for their wives and daughters.
He was also invited to a private audience with Queen Victoria.
Due to thinly veiled homoerotic undertones plus lots of skin and lots of sweat ( but apparently not enough clothing, save that worn by the fully clothed members of Queen themselves ), it was deemed unsuitable for a television audience at the time.
On the opening night, April 30, at the Drury Lane Theatre, the capacity audience ( which included the future Queen Elizabeth II ) demanded fourteen encores.
The Prime Minister normally has a weekly audience with The Queen thereafter.
Performing at the London Palladium, with Queen Elizabeth sitting in a box, Washington told the audience: " There is but one Heaven, one Hell, one queen, and your Elizabeth is an imposter.
In Act IV, Scene IV, after the murder of the two young princes and the ruthless murder of Lady Anne, the women of the play – Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of York, and even Margaret – gather to mourn their state and to curse Richard ; and it is difficult as the audience not to sympathise with them.

audience and is
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.
Moreover, if the critic instructs his audience in what to see in a work, he is contributing to this pseudo-thinking ; ;
Public relations strategists everywhere, watching the reaction of the German press, the liberal press, the lunatic-fringe press, listening to their neighbors, studying interviews with men and women on the street, cried out: Too much, too much -- the mind of the audience is becoming dulled, the horrors are losing their effect.
As long as his material is Americana, can in some way be ascribed to the masses and appears `` democratic '' to his audience, he remains satisfied.
The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all about, has no more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited, learned audience.
In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.
The `` moving '' picture of the train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, more intense than a still picture of the same subject, but the difference is really one of degree ; ;
As a finale is appended a close-up of one of the band taking aim and firing his revolver straight at the audience.
You think somebody is going to stand up in the audience and make guilty faces??
Maestro's biggest stock in trade is his personality, and ability to establish a warm rapport with his audience.
It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.
As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.
As the play unfolds, however, the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community.
The audience leaves the play under a spell, It is the kind of spell which the exposure to spirit in its living active manifestation always evokes.
In the end the good man, John Proctor, expresses what the audience has already come to feel when he says, `` A fire, a fire is burning!!
Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and potency of that which came over Salem.
The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.
Putting on local musicians at this place in the program serves a triple purpose: it saves the top flight jazz men from being wasted in this unenviable spot, when the audience is cold, restless, and in flux ; ;
Not so well known is the growth of broadcasting operations aimed wholly or partly at Negro listeners -- an audience which, in the United States, comprises some 19,000,000 people with $20,000,000,000 to spend each year.
Whatever the long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal.
He is well known for having given a series of lectures in which he championed a pure form of Christian doctrine and chastised his audience about their laxity.
While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

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