Word: buckingham
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Britons were for once uniformly outraged. Thundered the Times indignantly: "So much for the guards at Buckingham Palace. The ceremony of changing the Guard will never seem quite the same again ... All that array of scarlet tunics, burnished brass and polished leather, and still an intruder could stroll into the palace and up to the Queen's bedroom without being detected...
...revealed three days later when a tipster alerted the Daily Express. The intrusion led to a bruising question period in the House of Commons. Home Secretary William Whitelaw, lamely blaming the incident on technical and human error, was badgered by opposition members when he stressed earlier security improvements at Buckingham Palace and declared that security is "still not satisfactory, and more needs to be done." At week's end three police officers were transferred away from palace duty, and one of them was subsequently suspended...
After all, Charles did marry a commoner: a vivacious, strong-willed young woman, who is unpompous and unintimidated. It was, for instance, Diana's decision not to have her baby at Buckingham Palace, as the Queen had wanted. She has said that her Princeling will travel with his parents on state tours. It was presumably also Diana-who had worked with children-who had the last word when it came to hiring the nanny, Barbara Barnes, 39, who says firmly that she will not wear a uniform and has learned her philosophy of governance (plenty of fresh...
LONDON-After "a bit of an argument." Prince Charles and Princess Diana have decided on a name for their week-old son Buckingham Palace said yesterday that the blue-eyed future king will be called William Arthur Philip Louis...
...well ahead of a real-life heir, a script has been conceived and delivered, and filming has begun, on Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, a two-hour movie to be aired by CBS later this year. Since most of the authentic locales for the tale (places like Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle) are currently occupied and unavailable for film production, the movie is being shot in the mansions of Long Island, Connecticut and upstate New York. Prince Charles is portrayed by Christopher Baines, a British stage actor, and Diana is played by Model Catherine Oxenberg, 20. Though Romance marks...