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...Prince got the most invaluable of exports-prestige-and with it a new confidence, fresh hope. Britain, like his bride, seemed to bloom. And like the bride, most of the celebrators who showed up to cheer the couple to the church and back from the altar of St. Paul's were young. They will be the foundation on which will rest Charles' eventual rule, and they show every sign of standing firm. There were plenty of punks and skinheads reveling along the wedding route, cheering beside their more conservative contemporaries. If anything, the new Princess seems to have...
...like the Prince of Wales. How should this be?" One reason may be that the Prince steers clear of trends. His suits are made by Johns & Pegg, Ltd., exclusively military tailors until World War II, which made the naval ceremonial day coat in which the Prince will approach the altar. "We keep up with fashion, but we don't lead fashion," says Peter Johns...
...princelings providing, as it were, the stud farm that kept the breed going. The ruling monarchs were often kinsmen, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins, whose family relationships were a factor in international diplomacy. In those days, Prince Charles might well have found himself leading to the altar, instead of his charming English bride, some outlandish princess whose charms were more dynastic than bodily, and whose English was rudimentary...
...making since last November when Clements tried in vain to get his parishioners to take in black children, whose adoption rate lags behind that of whites. The priest, an activist who once served as a Black Panthers chaplain, went before his congregation one Sunday and announced from the altar: "All right, if you won't adopt, then I will." Though the Catholic archdiocese was cool to the proposed addition to Clements' flock, it eventually admitted that there was nothing in the church's code of canon law to prevent adoption. Says Joey, happy to move from...
...Conoco disappointment was the second time this year Seagram had been left at the altar with its $3 billion dowry. Its earlier bid for St. Joe Minerals had been quickly topped by Fluor. Will Bronfman pursue yet another U.S. company? Stay tuned. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by David Beckwith/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York