1.   Admittedly, they were of the royal house of Hapsburg but they were no less dead for that.

2.   As warm as the public remembering of President Bush may have become, we are too egalitarian a nation to put much faith in political royal houses.

3.   But in the shantytowns of Rabat, Casablanca and other cities, opposition simmered against the royal house.

4.   It became a royal house, symbolized by a white rose, central to British history.

5.   The royal houses of Germany and Russia, of course, were destroyed by World War I.

6.   They were passed like gifts of state among the royal houses of Europe.

7.   Abdulla leads the traditionalists in the royal house who have long opposed the rapid modernization of the kingdom, and heads the powerful National Guard.

8.   Another estranged wife of the royal house of Windsor, the Duchess of York, plans to be there.

9.   Behn, who scores poorly in popularity polls, will have no title and the palace has made it clear that he will not represent the royal house.

10.   Making the royal house of Saxe Coburg Gotha purely decorative requires amending the Constitution.