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Those racy British tabloids love rowdy stories about the royals. Now they have a new topic of gossip: Di' s marital fidelity (gasp...
Diana, Princess of Wales, turned 26 last week. She celebrated in a private room at a London restaurant with Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and his wife. The British tabloids, however, toasted Diana's birthday in a very different way. WHAT HAPPENS IF CHARLES AND DI DIVORCE? bannered the sensationalist Sun across a two-page spread. "It's unthinkable," noted the paper in considerably smaller type. "But anything goes with the royals these days." Declared the rival Daily Express: "She's 26 today, far from shy and surrounded by Hip Hoorays who dance and joke with her till dawn...
Rumors of a rift between the pensive, polo-loving Charles, 38, and his much younger, more pop-oriented wife have been played up in the papers for months. After spotting Di at rock concerts and discos with a number of male escorts, reporters zeroed in on a single putative love interest: Philip Dunne, 28, a London bachelor who works at the investment banking firm of S.G. Warburg. Never mind that Dunne already has a pretty girlfriend named Katya Grenfell. Young, successful and with a vague resemblance to Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman), Dunne fit the role perfectly. POW! SUPERMAN PHIL...
...true British tabloid style, no detail was spared. Several papers gleefully reported how Dunne and the princess danced until dawn at a wedding after Charles had left. Nigel Dempster, the country's leading gossip columnist, informed readers of the Daily Mail on Sunday that Di spent the weekend with Dunne and other guests at his family's country home while both his parents and Charles were away. When Diana was photographed at a David Bowie concert next to a handsome man, several papers trumpeted that it was Dunne. It was not; Di's companion turned out to be an officer...
...sister-in-law the Duchess of York, formerly Sarah Ferguson and known in headlines simply as "Fergie." Already 26 when she married Charles' younger brother Prince Andrew last year, Fergie arrived at Buckingham Palace with a large circle of partygoing friends and a relaxed, fun-loving demeanor. Di and Fergie made the papers at the annual Ascot races last month when, giggling, they prodded acquaintances from behind with their umbrellas. Later, when Princess Michael of Kent walked by, Diana reportedly greeted her with a wolf whistle...