Word: camilla
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...said Princess Diana is alleged to have dubbed Camilla Parker Bowles ``the Rottweiler'' [Jan. 23]. I take great umbrage at that. The Rottweiler breed is handsome, noble, intelligent, courageous and steadfastly loyal, and these dogs have an inherent desire to protect home and family. Puh-leeze, Diana. Do not bestow the regal title of Rottweiler on Camilla...
...said princess diana is alleged to have dubbed Camilla Parker Bowles ``the Rottweiler'' [Jan. 23]. I take great umbrage at that. The Rottweiler breed is handsome, noble, intelligent, courageous and steadfastly loyal, and these dogs have an inherent desire to protect home and family. Puh-leeze, Diana. Do not bestow the regal title of Rottweiler on Camilla...
...Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom Britain's Prince Charles has admitted having a longtime affair, today announced that she and husband Andrew Parker Bowles had divorced by mutual consent. Britain is now rife with speculation that Charles, who separated from Princess Diana two years ago, will get a divorce himself to marry the woman he loves -- the very predicament that forced his great uncle, King Edward VIII, to abdicate in 1936. Will it be the lady or the throne?TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrandsays that dilemma won't arise, as the Church of England has relaxed its rules...
This is a perverse linkage of the value of an institution and its temporary usage. Certainly, it is unfortunate when the heir to the throne has aspirations of being reincarnated as a feminine hygiene product (His Royal Highness was recorded in a conversation with Camilla Parker-Bowles expressing fear that he would be "chucked down the lavatory and go on forever, swirling round the top, never going down."). But since so many Britons support the idea of a monarchy--75 percent in a recent survey--why let two people destroy...
...rule. When he claimed he was faithful to Princess Diana until the marriage was "irretrievably broken," he may have opened himself to the charge of lying. The next day Andrew Morton, the author of Diana, Her True Story, wrote a stinging rebuttal. He asserts that the Camilla affair goes back perhaps even to the time of the royal wedding. In the past, Morton has proved to be witheringly right. If the monarchy stands for anything, it is for moral standards...