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Monarch envy: Are Yanks royally missing out?

(Dominic Lipinski / AP)

As their compatriots prepare to carry on with lavish Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Her Majesty, Britons on this side of the pond explain to Americans why the queen and royal family remain among the crown jewels of the United Kingdom’s national identity.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., DECEMBER 31, 2010. Chuck Brown performs during the inauguration gala for Vincent Gray as the sixth elected mayor of Washington held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. (Photo by ASTRID RIECKEN For The Washington Post)

The man who helped Chuck Brown bust loose

Logan Westbrooks helped Brown climb the charts in 1979 with the godfather’s signature anthem “Bustin’ Loose.”

A cardboard cut out of Queen Elizabeth is seen on an old London bus during Ladies Day at the Epsom Derby festival in Epsom, southwest of London June 1, 2012. On Saturday, Queen Elizabeth will indulge her life-long passion for horses with a visit to the Epsom Derby. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh (BRITAIN - Tags: SPORT HORSE RACING SOCIETY)

No Queen? What are Americans missing?

We asked British people based in our nation’s capital to explain what Americans are missing by not having a royal family.

Another wedding? Ugg!

From ‘bridal Uggs’ to ‘wedding fatigue,” signs of the season for matrimony are on full — and excessive — display.

Cast member Anne Hathaway arrives for the premiere of the film 'One Day' in New York August 8, 2011.  REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Who sang it best: ‘I Dreamed a Dream’

Anne Hathaway’s rendition of the famous song has won her mixed praise.

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Spring Arts Preview 2012

The Post Arts staff offers you its most-anticipated events of the coming season and more.

Your 'Mad Men' style icon

Do you exude the dapper air of Don Draper? The seductive aura of Joan Holloway? Take our quiz.

‘Hunger Games’ fashion

Clothing and style play a large role in Suzanne Collins’s young adult trilogy.

Gaultier on ‘Snow White’

Haute-couture designer creates costumes for ballet show at the Kennedy Center.

Oscar best picture picks: Remixed

We’ve partnered with Polyvore.com to bring you a design challenge around the Academy Awards.

TV’s midseason makeover

Television’s 2012 midseason features missing persons, supernatural twists and ‘Glee’ for adults.

The Fillmore arrives in Silver Spring

What happens to Washington’s greater nightlife ecosystem when the largest music hall of its kind opens shop in a rebounding suburb outside the city?

New York Fashion Week: Faux pas or fashion forward?

The line between creative genious and aesthetically displeasing can be a precarious one in fashion.

The right fit for ‘Fela!’

From its workshop beginnings in 2006, “Fela!” has really belonged to Sahr Ngaujah.

Savoring their opportunities

The Washington region’s musical amateurs are finding more times and places to perform.

Desk stuff becomes the stuff of art

We’re the city of desk jobs, news desks, “what desk are you on at State?” Desk portraiture seems an eerily accurate depiction of Washington living. But E. Brady Robinson excludes the usual bureaucrats. For her, the buck stops at the arts desk.

Summer movie hits and misses

“Bridesmaids” and “The Help” hit. “Green Lantern” and “Cowboys & Aliens” missed. We look at some of this summer’s movie surprises and what they might predict going forward.

Baltimore leads in integrity

Baltimore’s not a Very Important Place — which is just what its residents like about it.

Literary novelists take a page from kid-lit fantasies

Adult fiction that invents, and muses about, wildly popular children’s fantasy series is becoming its own genre.

Martin Luther King Jr., the columnist

Between 1957 and 1958, Ebony magazine published a King-penned series called “Advice for Living.”

Music: Tri Angle Records

The hot indie label’s founder, Robin Carolan, has discovered all of his roster — including oOoOO and Balam Acab — online.

Advice

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Sister wants to skip out on wedding

Bride should tell her bridesmaid sister that choosing to leave her wedding early to attend a dance recital is incredibly hurtful.

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Carolyn Hax

Fiance’s distrust is a bad omen

Woman needs to face the ugliness her jealous fiance has spewed, learn from it and leave.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Love triangle looms over this circle of friends

She would like to date James, but her engaged girlfriend harbors feelings for him, too.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Six-month breather seems best for both

A bride-to-be has been there for her best friend through tough stuff. Now that friend plans to take an overseas job and miss the wedding planning.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

A birthday imposition?

A reader asks: Why must my adult friends persist in putting together lunches and potlucks and nights out and dinners in which everyone else pays for the party?

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Braggarts flood her news feed

Carolyn Hax’s advice: Facebook user needs to break the habit of comparing herself with others socially — and block posts from those who boast habitually.

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Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Merry widow has friend worried

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Ruination

SUFFOLK, VIRGINIA - FEBRUARY 13, 2012 - Photo 1, south elevation, Carter's Grove. (Photo by Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
NOTE - DO NOT CROP - AF

How a wealthy tech pioneer and a precious Colonial estate in Virginia met a sorry fate.

2012 Post Hunt

Our day of brainteasing puzzles returns for a fifth year! Join Dave Barry, Tom Shroder and Gene Weingarten and thousands of others in downtown Washington, D.C., on Sunday, June 3.

The ambassador of contrasts

WASHINGTON, DC - August 25, 2011:   The Kingdom of Bahrain Ambassador to the United States, Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo, greets  guests during an iftar dinner at the Bahrain Embassy on Thursday August 25, 2011 in Washington, DC.   (Matt McClain for the Washington Post)

As the first Jewish envoy appointed by an Arab nation, Houda Nonoo was supposed to represent Bahrain’s tolerance. Then came the Arab Spring.

The war over Gehry

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 10:  Famed architect, Frank Gehry poses for a portrait outside Gehry Partners, LLP on Tuesday April 10, 2012 in Los Angeles, CA.  Gehry has created a design for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower.  The Eisenhower family have spoken out against his design.  (Photo by Matt McClain for The Washington Post)

When architect Frank Gehry unveiled his vision of Dwight D. Eisenhower
as a “barefoot boy,” the battles over the president’s memorial broke out.

My mother’s ashes

A mother’s dying request was that her ashes be scattered by her favorite rock in the mountains. But for her daughter, finding that rock proved harder than she ever imagined.

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A Monarch Butterfly lands on a plant in the courtyard, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 in Coal Township, Mich.  (AP Photo/The News-Item, Mike Staugaitis)

A garden with wings

Choosing the right plants and adding a few rocks can guarantee that butterflies will fly around your back yard all summer long

Kids learn about dairy farming at the King Barn Dairy MOOseum in Germantown.

Have a dairy good time at MOOseum

A visit to the days when dairy farms were abundant in Montgomery County is a moo-ving experience.

Fourth Grade Students at Oyster Adams Bilingual School, Missy Alden and Daniel Sanchez are the English/Spanish teachers

Oyster-Adams’s Fab Fourths

The last Class of KidsPost of the year comes from Washington.

: When learning takes flight: Birds that breed in Northern Virginia and winter in Nicaragua unite kids who live in two different worlds.

‘Bridging the Americas’ program

Kids learned songs and wrote poems about migrating birds.

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