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...tragic that Diana died just as she was emerging from her past troubles and, with new maturity, getting ready for a different life. We first glimpsed her as a lovely fairy-tale bride. We then saw her turn into a frantic and disturbed young wife, fighting for the affections of her husband, who, incredibly, preferred another woman. We watched as she emerged bruised yet with fresh strength and purpose. She learned as she grew: the naive, clueless girl was evolving into a confident woman. She forged a unique role for herself, using her luminous presence to focus attention on important...
...fact, the hunt that resulted in Princess Diana's death began almost 20 years ago. When Diana was in her late teens, and Prince Charles was turning 30, royal courtiers were casting about for a worthy (i.e., unsullied, virginal) bride for the heir to the throne. It would not matter, evidently, that these courtiers, like the members of the royal family, knew of Charles' semisecret relationship with the married woman Camilla Parker Bowles. The princess-to-be was required to be virginal in every sense--to be ignorant of the very conditions of her marriage. With the cruel logic...
...seventh time in a private ceremony last week, three days before he was scheduled to undergo angioplasty to clear a blocked blood vessel. The wedding, which was originally to be a gala, star-studded affair, was held a day early because of the operation. On this occasion the happy bride was SHAWN SOUTHWICK, herself a veteran of two prior unions...
...waiting's insistence that it was time to be leaving with the flat observation that dessert hadn't come yet. There are those who will see in this scene the evidence of an emergent eating disorder. I saw it as evidence of the loveliness of being 27 and the bride of a future King, and I still do, and I always will...
...bloat, which will certainly be told and told again in the coming weeks, the story of what happened after his death is both more unfamiliar and nearly as compelling, at least from a fiduciary point of view. Its unlikely heroine turns out to be none other than Elvis' "child bride," Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, who divorced him in 1973 but took over EPE six years later as trustee for their young daughter Lisa Marie. (EPE was and is the operating arm of the trust that owns the Presley estate.) At the time, the company's principal asset was dead, his shockingly...