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...looking at a person not so much as a machine, but as the whole, in a classic, ancient sense." Charles is drawn to asceticism: he apparently fasts occasionally and rarely eats red meat. He shies away from being called a vegetarian, maintaining that he simply prefers fish and fowl. Diana, who also eschews meat, attributes her imperial slimness (which some palace watchers have whispered was anorexia) to the fact that at public functions "it's impossible to talk and eat at the same time...
...Diana overlooked Charles, who has been given a minor make-over by his wife. She has spruced up his young-fogy image by getting him to wear brighter ties, striped shirts and less somber suits. She also persuaded him to allow her haircutter to give him a slightly longer, less plastered-down look that makes his ears look less prominent...
Along with worldwide attention and even adulation, Diana and Charles have come in for what some feel is an unfair share of criticism. The royal family, these observers suggest, cannot win. As the Times of London wrote in a recent editorial, "The public demands that (the royal family's) members embody fantasies which are contradictory: for freshness and sophistication, for novelty and stability." Paradoxically, that is precisely what the royal couple have been able to do, especially Diana. With her mixture of conservativism and modishness, of shyness and assurance, she conveys both continuity and spontaneity...
Charles and Diana are mirrors and exemplars of stalwart British qualities: civility, courtesy and coziness, with a dash of style and a bit of fun. Charles will need those qualities as King. His small-is-beautiful philosophy should come in handy as well, for Charles and Diana will be King and Queen not of imperial Britain but of a realm that has almost shrunk to the proportions of Shakespeare's sceptered isle...
...royalty, the English economist and journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Charles and Diana have allowed the shutters to be opened just a crack. To spread them any further would spoil the illusion. To be modern, yet keep the mystique--that is the trick. It is a trick that Charles and Diana have gracefully mastered...