Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problems of Diana and Charles were exacerbated by the media. Let young William live in peace. SUNIL SHIBAD Mahim, India...
...freed us from an inbred aristocracy is a concept that in 220 years has led to the dissolution of dozens of dynasties and royal houses. Hereditary monarchies, with the appellation "by the grace of God," are more than just quaint anachronisms. The English should spend less time considering whether Diana should be called Her Royal Highness and a little more considering why anyone should be. THOMAS BALL San Juan, Texas Via E-mail...
Figuratively speaking, Princess Diana has been beheaded. Now all that remains is for Prince Charles to ascend the throne in due course; his appropriate name then would be King Henry VIII the Second. Long live hypocrisy! JOCELYN MARY SEEMANN Durban, South Africa...
...late Malcolm Muggeridge, British literary curmudgeon, on the royal marriage: "Only fortunetellers, Marxists and Jehovah's Witnesses will venture to prognosticate whether Prince Charles and Lady Diana will actually one day mount the throne as King and Queen of England. In the course of 50 years of knockabout journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone... Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, 'God bless the Prince...
Even so, their performance is witness to the truth of John F. Kennedy's famous cliche: "Life is unfair." The unfairness, in the case of Charles and Diana, lies in the fact that classically, it is their children who must pay so much of the price for the silly lives of their parents...