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...precisely 11 a.m., and an investiture-a traditional ceremony for bestowing honors on deserving subjects-was about to begin in the grand ballroom at Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth II was smiling broadly as the Lord Chamberlain stepped forward and interrupted the general hush: "The Queen has asked me to let you know that an announcement is being made this morning." What followed produced a gasp, applause and even more jubilant beaming from the Queen. Champagne corks began to pop around the palace. At long last, Prince Charles, 32, heir to the British throne, was to be married. His betrothed: Lady...
...national television, Charles and Diana engagingly discussed the most widely publicized "secret" courtship in the history of the court. It was conducted, said the Prince, "like a military operation." He had proposed, he said, over dinner for two in his third-floor quarters at Buckingham Palace, shortly before Diana's Feb. 6 departure for a vacation in Australia. "I wanted to give Diana a chance to think about it-to think if it was going to be too awful. If she didn't like the idea, she could say she didn't. If she did, she could...
...girl who will be Queen has already resigned her teaching post and moved from her London flat into royal quarters. At Clarence House, home of the popular "Queen Mum," Elizabeth's mother, and just 200 yds. from Buckingham Palace, she will doubtless be instructed in some of the finer nuances of royal protocol. She has presumably already satisfied the royal doctors that she can bear healthy children and has no family history of hereditary maladies. Asked if she feels prepared for the life ahead of her, the future Queen of England responded in the sweet, storybook style that...
...Murray Center will move out of its current quarters in Buckingham House, making the house available for research projects...
...Britain's most eligible bachelor, Prince Charles produces front-page palpitations every time he is seen with a marriageable young woman. Until now, however, Buckingham Palace has kept a discreetly stiff upper lip when Fleet Street attempted to handicap the Prince's love life. Thus it was highly unusual when Queen Elizabeth II through her spokesman publicly denounced London's Sunday Mirror last month for a story linking the Prince and Lady Diana Spencer, 19, the winsome blond whom many Britons expect to be the next Queen. The Sunday Mirror's response was even more unusual...