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Given this backstairs acrimony it is hardly a surprise when the divorce further isolates Margaret from the simple life in Balmoral and Buckingham. With her companion Roddy, 18 years her junior, she begins tripping around the Caribbean, vainly searching for health and cheer. Dempster pores over royal records and checks back issues of the newspapers, but one of his most reliable sources seems to be an old friend of Margaret's whose drug-dependent son sold photographs of the princess to pay off his pusher. By the final curtain, Margaret and Roddy have split and the public is once...
...daughter of Dr. Roy Gordon, professor of Chemistry, she was born on Dec. 10, 1962 and graduated from Buckingham. Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge...
...opening of Parliament. In her first state appearance, Diana graced a chair to the right of the throne, with, as the Times of London put it, "the Prince of Wales at her side." Then came more momentous news, just three months after the royal nuptials. "It is announced from Buckingham Palace," read the statement, "that the Princess of Wales is expecting a baby in June." The royal offspring will become second in line to the throne behind Charles, who may attend the birth himself...
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...