Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ritual and regalia of the wedding were matched in ingenuity if not in splendor by the celebrations surrounding them. Angus Henry, 25, a freelance caterer, and Gwyn Jenkins, 25, an interior designer, set up hard by Buckingham Palace with a television, three cases of sparkling white wine, masses of duck pate, a crate of salmon sandwiches, French bread, orange juice and a large black umbrella. They threw a party right there for 50 friends, and on the wedding morning Angus changed into a morning suit. All along the wedding route, spectators wrapped themselves in flags and youths painted the Union...
...scene almost as well staked out. The Sun stationed 40 reporters with walkie-talkies all along the route, and the Daily Mail had 25. The only crime story remotely connected with the wedding broke on the day itself. It came out that ten days earlier, in Gloucestershire, two Buckingham Palace footmen, Stephen Beevis, 20, and Andrew Gildersleeve, 22, had been nabbed in a stolen Land Rover carrying 80 sticks of gelignite, batteries and assorted pieces of mining equipment. The story was kept under wraps, but Scotland Yard searched the Buckingham Palace quarters where Beevis and Gildersleeve lived before handing...
America's official representative was a never-stop. From the moment Nancy Reagan arrived in London she kept a hectic social pace, which included a meeting with the Queen at which she failed to curtsy. Fleet Street regarded this as a snub, although Buckingham Palace made it clear that Mrs. Reagan was not required to bend a knee. With that settled, the spiffy-looking President's wife quickly turned the tide, and by the time she appeared for the Hyde Park fireworks display on Tuesday night she received an ovation second only to the Queen...
Some 750 miles of cable were set down, and scores of cameras were set up, 21 in St. Paul's Cathedral alone. By the time the sun rose over Buckingham Palace last Wednesday, three communications satellites over the Indian and Atlantic oceans were beaming images of the scene to 750 million viewers in 61 countries, from Sweden to Zambia. For most of the next 7% hours, the air waves crackled with commentary in 34 languages, much of it irritatingly trite. But the pictures were the important thing, and they were riveting...
...Today show built an open-air studio across from Buckingham Palace and broadcast from there all week. Together the three networks deployed two dozen cameras at carefully selected positions along the route in hopes of getting exclusive shots of arresting moments. Explained ABC News Executive Producer Robert Siegenthaler: "The British feed tends to be stately rather than close-up and personal. Ours has more of a 'people' feel to it." Top ABC sports directors were called in to direct the wedding coverage, including Tuesday night's fireworks display, on the theory that they could lend extra pizazz...