Don’t get stressed and enjoy your big day is US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s advice to Prince William, fiancee Kate Middleton and their families ahead of the royal wedding next month.
Clinton, whose daughter Chelsea got married last year in a ceremony dubbed “America’s royal wedding”, said organising an event which also attracts global interest could be taxing.
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Christie’s ivories to go on show
London: Precious ivory artefacts which crime author Agatha Christie cleaned using her face cream after her husband had excavated them have been bought by the British Museum, it was reported on Tuesday. The prolific author was present at excavations directed by her second husband, Max Mallowan, in the former Assyrian capital of Nimrud.
Preferring to undertake a less physical role, Christie said she used “an orange stick, possibly a very fine knitting needle... And a jar of cosmetic face cream... For gently coaxing the dirt out of the crevices without harming the friable ivory.”
While at the site, Christie stayed in a room separate from the workers’ tents where she penned several novels, including Hickory Dickory Dock. —AFP