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...innocents abroad are U.S. tourists by any means. This week, heading the royal road show out of London, Prince Charles and Princess Anne will wing into Washington direct from a two-week tour of Canada for their first U.S. visit. The object, as the White House and Buckingham Palace rather cloyingly put it, is to bring the young people of the two nations together. As the official guests of Tricia Nixon and David and Julie Eisenhower, the royal pair will be treated to a barbecue and swimming at Camp David, a baseball game at Washington's Robert F. Kennedy...
Superdeb. "Princess Anne lives the same sort of life as many upper-class English girls," says a Buckingham Palace spokesman -except that she is richer than most (an allowance of ?6,000 or $14,400 a year), her friends have to call her "Ma'am," and a private detective accompanies her everywhere. She also has decidedly more fringe benefits, what with her furnished three-room suite in Buckingham Palace, a fleet of helicopters available to whisk her here and there, access to the world's most famous and fascinating people and invitations to a constant round of elite...
...instance, the reader finds the story of a 17th century British eccentric named Eleanor Audley who, having plucked REVEALE O DANIEL out of her name, launched a brilliant career as a clairvoyant. Arrested by a jittery government for predicting the deaths of King Charles I and the Duke of Buckingham, she was reminded by the judge that her married title. Dame Eleanor Davis, kaleidoscoped to NEVER so MAD A LADIE...
They were all wrong. When the very first election results trickled into London last week, the computers at once flashed the prediction of a Tory triumph. As the night wore on, district after district reported an average 5% swing to the Conservatives. The next day, as Heath drove to Buckingham Palace, kissed the hand of Queen Elizabeth II and accepted her commission to form a government, the British nation appeared stunned by what it had wrought. "Heath has done a Truman," declared the Guardian, recalling the former President's 1948 upset of Thomas E. Dewey...
Full of confidence, Wilson last week delivered to Heath a note on his 10 Downing Street writing paper that began teasingly: "Dear Ted, I thought it might be helpful to let you know . . ." Then Wilson drove past the freshly gilded gates of Buckingham Palace in his black Rover to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament so that the three-week campaign could get under...