Word: diana
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...stately and nurturing as the Queen Mum, is the Australian-born Klensch. For Elsa, shoddy clothes and naughty tattle simply n'existent pas. "Karl Lagerfeld could kill his mother," she told HG, "and I'd just ask him about the design of his clothes." Who else could merge Diana Vreeland and Diane Sawyer? No one Elsa...
Senior Captain Karin Swartz, who has struggled through injuries her past three years, is healthy and will likely perform at number one, while sophomores Diana Bowers and Jennifer Kearney are expected to have strong seasons...
Senior Captain Karin Swartz, who has struggled through injuries her past three years, is healthy and will likely perform at number one, while sophomores Diana Bowers and Jennifer Kearney are expected to have strong seasons...
These scandals capped a spring and summer of monarchical discontent. In April the palace announced that after two years of separation, Princess Anne would divorce Captain Mark Phillips, her husband of 18 years. June saw the publication of journalist Andrew Morton's best seller on Princess Diana, portraying in excruciating detail the travails of a young woman trapped in a cold and loveless marriage. Morton's accounts of her five suicide attempts and struggles with the eating disorder bulimia were shocking enough. Worse, by monarchists' reckonings, were the signs that Morton had enjoyed the cooperation of Diana's friends...
What will happen when the Queen is gone? A genuine reconciliation between Charles and Diana leading to a long and visible happy-ever-after seems unlikely. The question then is whether society now deems a fairy-tale marriage essential to the monarchy's survival. In the meantime, the royal antics have sparked some heterodox ideas about the current state of the institution. An Independent newspaper editorial titled "Family values" called for restricting annual allocations from the civil list just to the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Pressure is also building on Queen Elizabeth II to reciprocate for the government...