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  • She was one of the judges of the Golden Jubilee poetry competition, and in a poem called The Windsors: An Everyday Story of Royal Folk harmlessly evokes their unreal world by conflating it with that of the Archers.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Saxe-Gotheburgs aka Windsors, they might start to wonder what right they have to lord over them.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Thanks for another reminder of how the "Windsors" are not now, nor have they ever been, deserving rulers of this country.

    The Guardian World News Christopher Hitchens 2011

  • You must know that the Zezimas and the Windsors have had a chilly relationship since the Revolution, when an ancestor of mine, John Quincy Zezima, a columnist for the Colonial Advocate, wrote an investigative piece exposing King George's war plans, thus leading to the Empire's defeat.

    Jerry Zezima: "Royal Response" Jerry Zezima 2011

  • Anyone who's looked at the first draft of Prince Harry's best-man speech, of course, may already be ruing the day the Windsors were allowed such a free hand.

    This Week: Nick Clegg, Larry the Downing Street cat, Pippa Middleton 2011

  • Those interested in the affairs of that other family across the ocean, the Windsors, soon to witness the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, won't find anything documentary-like in Lifetime Television's "William & Kate."

    The Loud Family Returns Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

  • And so, just over the pond, to a family more powerful than anything the Windsors can contrive as Elisabeth Murdoch, having sold her Shine for £415m, joins brothers James and Lachlan and her old dad, Rupert, on the News Corp board with third wife Wendi and two more little Murdochs hovering in the ante-chamber.

    What hope of a peaceful succession in Rupert Murdoch's family? 2011

  • You must know that the Zezimas and the Windsors have had a chilly relationship since the Revolution, when an ancestor of mine, John Quincy Zezima, a columnist for the Colonial Advocate, wrote an investigative piece exposing King George's war plans, thus leading to the Empire's defeat.

    Jerry Zezima: "Royal Response" Jerry Zezima 2011

  • During World War I, the ties of Victoria's descendants to their German cousin Willy, the Kaiser, became an embarrassment, and the British royals proved adaptable by anglicizing their names: The Saxe-Coburg-Gothas became the Windsors.

    Sovereignty and the Pitiless Passage of Time Henrik Bering 2012

  • However, I do admire the dignity and level-headedness of Diana's son – not to mention his choice of bride – and think the wedding will at least consolidate the Windsors' standing for a generation or two.

    Letters: Royal democrat 2011

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