Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...William had called his mother that day, complaining that Buckingham Palace was making him "perform"--asking him to pose for the hated photographers at Eton, where he was due to report last week. Now it is Harry who is the impish one. To get a chance to mature a bit more, he will repeat a year at Ludgrove, the boarding school Wills attended, before probably joining his brother at Eton...
...knows the Queen. "There will be no problems with William's turning to the Queen for help and support." The 71-year-old Elizabeth may have stressed duty over spontaneity with her son, but she may have learned her lesson. Says this source: "She has mellowed quite a bit...
Nevertheless, the Prince of Wales has been working at fine-tuning his image, a process he began once his divorce was settled. "He knew he was never going to be glamorous," says an aide, "but all he wanted is a bit of respect and appreciation for what he has been doing." Like his ex-wife, he believes the monarchy must do good works; from an annual income estimated at more than $6 million, he contributes as much as $2 million a year to such charities as the St. Luke's Hospice and the Devon Wildlife Trust. The Prince's Trust...
...states that somebody ran up a $3,000 bill on a duplicate of his credit card, that "the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it..." and that he never lost a cent. It may be constructive to take the situation a bit further and figure out who did lose. My husband and I own a small business, and more than once we have had to deal with that "nice lady from the credit-card company" who tells us we have to absorb the loss. Even when insurance covers part of the cost...
Thus, with an optimistic outlook tempered by a bit of skepticism, only time will tell how the men's and women's harriers evolve during the 1997 season...