Editor’s note: This is the last of a three-part story recounting a round-the-world journey made by Donna Altes, a retired Napa teacher. BEIJING — My heart was racing as I flew to Beijing to join an ...
Privileged though they may be, hereditary monarchs are denied a basic freedom that the rest of us enjoy. Their lives aren’t quite their own: unless they succumb to the self-destruction of abdication, ...