THE QUEEN has made a private visit to the hospital bedside of
an Orthodox Jew who was stabbed more than 20 times on a
London bus.
While on an arranged tour of Homerton Hospital in East London
the Queen expressed her horror at the attack and told executives
that she wanted to visit David Myers to wish him a speedy
recovery.
The Queen was told that the stabbing could be the result of the
rising tensions in the Middle East. She was said to be disturbed
that such incidents could take place “in this day and age”.
Mr Myers presented her with a silver-framed Jewish blessing
written in Hebrew and English giving thanks for the Royal Family.
Mr Myers has since been discharged from hospital. A man has
been charged with attempted murder.
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Queen Mother's escape(Electronic Telegraph)
QUEEN Elizabeth the Queen Mother narrowly escaped injury when she
tripped on her evening dress and stumbled, Clarence House said yesterday.
The Queen Mother tripped while getting into her car on Tuesday night after a
Garden Society dinner at a hotel in central London. "She was perfectly all
right when she returned to Clarence House. She did stumble but she was
unhurt," a spokesman said.
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Charles shares architecture lament(BBC News)
The Prince of Wales saw the beatiful and the
ugly side of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia,
on his three day tour of Central Europe.
Prince Charles, who is known for his dislike of
much modern architecture, sympathised with
the Mayor of Bratislava about a 1960s road
which disfigured the city's greatest
architectural gem - its cathedral.
The Mayor Jozef Moravcik complained about
the unsightly thoroughfare, built right alongside
St Martin's Cathedral in the city's historic
Jewish quarter.
The road was constructed by the Communists
after World War II.
Mr Moravcik described the throughfare, which
runs through the centre of Slovakia's capital,
as "catastrophic".
A princely lament
"When was the road put there?" the Prince
asked.
The Mayor said it had been built during the
1960s to which the Prince replied: "They did it
in Britain too. It's unbelievable what's
happened there too.
"Some of us have been
trying to put things
back ever since. It's
not easy."
Having seen the ugly
side of Bratislava,
Prince Charles also saw
the beautiful side when
he met two beauty
queens, Martina
Vrazda, 21, and
Adriana Rakovsek, 20,
who are finalists in the
Miss Slovakia contest.
The Prince also visited a refuge for women and
child victims of violence which he helped set
up.
He toured the Hope Centre in Bratislava which
aims to stamp out domestic violence, and has
partly been funded by British grants.
He shook hands and chatted with residents of
the Slovak capital who lined the picturesque
streets.
On Tuesday he delighted locals by trying his
hand at an ancient wind instrument.
Accepting the
metre-long fujara from
82-year-old forester
Jan Mikuska, who had
carved it from
sycamore maple
especially for him, the
Prince immediately set
about learning to play
it.
He also took an hour's
walk in a primeval
forest.
On Monday Prince
Charles met the President of the Czech
Republic Vaclav Havel during a welcoming
ceremony at Prague Castle, Prague.
The Prince was in the Czech Republic to
support the Prague Heritage Fund which aims
to preserve the architecture of one of Europe's
most beautiful cities.
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The Prince and the pop star(Yahoo: Ananova)
Prince Edward could be about to get help from an unlikely source in a bid to revive the
fortunes of his production company Ardent Productions.
Peoplenews claims Ardent wants to produce the video for the first solo single from
Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Sophie's dad, Robin Bextor, is director of programmes for Ardent.
A source at the company said: "Sophie has just agreed a solo record deal and negotiations are already under way
about who will do the video.
"Her dad is the director of programmes here so there is more than a good chance of clinching the deal."
Sophie's collaboration with Spiller reached number one in August, stopping Posh Spice from topping the chart.