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...many Americans, it was the near equivalent of the royal wedding that Britain is preparing for, albeit with a slight reversal of roles. At Westminster Abbey this Wednesday, with suitable pomp and ceremony, Prince Andrew of the House of Windsor weds his commoner (but uncommon) love, Sarah Ferguson. But near Hyannis Port, Mass., last Saturday, the bride was the Princess of Camelot when Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, daughter of President John F. Kennedy and former First Lady Jacqueline Onassis, was married to the very un-Kennedyesque Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, 13 years her senior...
...After a silent breakfast, the monks gather for rounds in the offices downstairs, when they go over the schedule of the day. By now, some of them are dressed in everyday clothes. They check the daily business, delegating cars to those who work beyond the abbey's walls...
...some; she wasn't having any and playfully threw them at him. Bull's-eye. "There are always humble beginnings," said the zinged Andrew at a press conference last week. "It's got to start somewhere." Currently "over the moon" and hoping for a late-summer wedding in Westminster Abbey, the couple kissed happily for the cameras. Then the bride-to-be gave reporters a look at her engagement ring, a $37,000 oval ruby surrounded by ten drop diamonds that Andrew helped design. Asked what they saw in each other, the Prince fumbled for an answer. "Wit? Charm...
...Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered blue-and-cream silk were recently found in their original box in Calke Abbey, as fresh as the day they left China nearly 250 years...
...ceremonies in Britain, France and West Germany were solemn commemorations that played down military pomp. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was reluctant to celebrate a military victory over a now important ally, but agreed to an official service in Westminster Abbey after the Royal British Legion and other patriotic groups insisted on marking the anniversary. Before Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and other members of the royal family, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, reminded the congregation that the war had a noble purpose: "The victory which closed down Belsen, Buchenwald and Auschwitz is, itself, sufficient cause for thanksgiving...