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...turnout of more than a million mourners in London, particularly those of the younger generation, for a glimpse of Diana's cortege was the expression of Britons' disapproval of the monarchy, against which Diana had staged a rebellion. The public's views must have shocked the inmates of Buckingham Palace. The lowering of the flag to half-staff under pressure of public opinion was the beginning of the end of an era. AGHA KAFEEL BARIK Karachi...
...Buckingham Palace is denying allegations of a royal row over Diana's death (People Daily), while bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones has regained consciousness and is apparently able to talk (Reuters) ... In Northern Ireland, a mystery bomb is a setback for peace talks (TIME Daily) ... Congress is considering a proposal that would have business executives audit the IRS (TIME Daily) ... William Weld is keeping a low profile in the wake of quitting his battle with Senator Jesse Helms (TIME Daily), just as the country he wanted to be ambassador to, Mexico, is praised for its drug-fighting efforts (Reuters) ... Steve Jobs...
...ceremony. With voluble outrage and grief to match our confessional age, editorial writers and citizens on the streets told their royal family that business as usual is not an acceptable reaction. Once upon a time it may have been enough. When George VI and his Queen remained stoically at Buckingham Palace to share with Londoners the horrors and dangers of the wartime blitz, he sealed the affections of his people and prepared the ground for the new Elizabethan era. But this, now, is a revolutionary era, and like the Bourbons it has caught the Windsors by surprise. Call...
...restrained from a fight with photographers on the ski slopes in Austria. And according to Richard Kay, a columnist for the Daily Mail who spoke to the princess the Saturday of the accident, 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...
...Pimlott, a professor of government at the University of London and the author of a new biography of Queen Elizabeth. "People who think that we can just skip out of this royal relationship and pretend that it does not exist need to look at all the flowers outside Buckingham Palace...