Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goal of everyone involved in the war of the Windsors. But clear-sightedness is trammeled up in the net of Britain's constitution. Back-room negotiations are now taking place between palace and Parliament. Will there be a King William to bypass Charles? A rival royal court for Diana? A Queen Camilla...
Divorcing should be rather simple. Any British couple separated for at least two years can easily end their marriage. But Charles and Diana are not any British couple. And in matters relating to the succession, the Queen herself must petition for advice and permission from the Prime Minister. Thus in 1967, when the Queen first allowed a member of the royal family to remarry (the Earl of Harewood, the Queen's first cousin), she did so upon the advice of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Therefore her recent instruction to Charles, 47, and Diana, 32, to divorce was a veritable...
...PRINCESS DIANA INTERVIEW (ABC) With a composed fragility, the Princess of Wales yanked the royal family into the age of public confession. Her disclosures--that her marriage was a shambles, that she had suffered from bulimia--weren't shocking. But her doe-eye candor was. Some found it calculated, but most viewers opened their hearts to the world's most famous victim...
...royal couple celebrated the third anniversary of their separation last week, it must have been painfully clear to even the most common of commoners that Diana wasn't selected for the princess job on the basis of intelligence or loyalty or wit. The qualifications were simple: she had to be a presentable Protestant from the upper class and a virgin. The last criterion has to do less with morality than with the purity of the product. She was, to put it crudely, enlisted as a breeder, charged with the job of transmitting the Windsor genes from Charles to his eventual...
...case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship and love. Camilla Parker Bowles was his real partner, Diana just a means of reproduction...