Word: diana
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Royals: Princess Diana's hang...
Just as with the Squidgy tapes and Camillagate -- already part of the language -- the Waleses were undone by the telephone. To deny the charges, mysteriously leaked to the paper, Diana took the unusual step of contacting a rival royals reporter, the Daily Mail's handsome Richard Kay. Well, she almost denied them. Kay reported she had been in phone contact with the dashing Hoare at the time the calls began in September 1992, just before the Waleses separated. Hoare was an old friend of the couple and, hoping to save the marriage, tried to negotiate between them. When Hoare...
...even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box," she cried, noting quite shrewdly that "whoever is trying to destroy me is inevitably damaging the institution of the monarchy." Diana is in an increasingly vulnerable position. Since her separation from Charles in December 1992, she has searched for a private life. The media frenzy has continued unabated, however, and last December she announced her semiretirement from public activities. None of it has made much difference. She is still the most photographed woman in the world...
...Diana, who has a strong will but a fragile temperament, may really have buckled under the strains that followed her decision to leave her old, privileged life as Charles' rejected wife. No new life is open to her, and any attempts to get to know another man would be met with a furor. Observers of the British Establishment -- a powerful force comprising senior Conservative politicians, civil servants, heads of financial institutions, certain members of the intelligentsia and the aristocracy -- have noted how it is closing ranks behind Charles. In '92 Diana was the wronged woman; now she is portrayed...
Administration: Susan Lynd, Denise A. Carres, Sheila Charney, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Corliss M. Duncan, Ann V. King, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...