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...find to marry him?" She notes that over the past hundred years, the monarchy has recruited women like Queen Mary, George V's consort, who epitomized royal womanhood's acquiescence and sense of duty, and the present Queen Mother, who has been just as responsible and effervescent as well. Diana was very young and inexperienced, sexually and otherwise. Where, Colley asks, are such young women to be found in this age of independence, blossoming careers and cohabitation...
...mother of Prince William, will be regarded by the Queen and the Prince of Wales as being a member of the Royal family." So read the statement released by Buckingham Palace last week announcing that the Waleses had reached a divorce settlement. This acknowledgement must have come hard. Diana lost the designation Her Royal Highness, but the palace could not dismiss her completely, despite Charles' bitter acrimony toward her (London papers reported that the Queen was willing to let Diana keep her H.R.H., but Charles insisted that she relinquish it). The recognition that she remains in the family...
...financial settlement has not been made known, but it is probably about $23 million. (Diana reportedly asked for $75 million, a sum not unheard of. Actress Amy Irving is said to have received close to $100 million from director Steven Spielberg in 1989; two years later, TV magnate Norman Lear paid an estimated $112 million for his freedom.) It is not clear whether the payment will be made in the lump sum Diana reportedly wanted. The Queen is notoriously tightfisted, so the settlement amount may represent principal held in trust from which Diana can draw interest. In that case...
...gets to keep her 30-odd-room apartment in Kensington Palace rent free. That may not be the Windsors' preference or Diana's. In recent years she has been offered a look around other grand London houses, but the excellent security at Kensington Palace, a dormitory for various royals, including Princess Margaret, was doubtless the deciding factor. The concern would not have been just for Diana's well-being but also for the children's. There has never been any squabbling over custody, and the boys will continue to split their time between their parents...
...interesting part of the statement released by the palace concerns the niceties of Diana's rank. She will "from time to time receive invitations to state and national public occasions." At such ceremonies she will "be accorded the precedence she enjoys at present." In other words, she will not be banished far from her boys should they be in attendance. If Diana wishes to be part of the family, she can gradually reingratiate herself. Lord Snowdon, the photographer and Princess Margaret's former husband, has reappeared on the court scene and can be found at receptions and other occasions...