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...Australian trip revealed the couple's considerable public relations skills, and turned into a showcase for their uninhibited style of royal excursion. With her nimble spontaneity, Diana is invigorating the staid ritual of the walkabout, the traditional version of which presents a gloved and hatted royal frowning to show interest as a dusty foreman laboriously explains how a widget is manufactured. Touring an aluminum smelter in the city of Portland, Diana could not stop giggling at the sight of Charles wearing a too small hard hat and protective goggles; with his Clark Gable ears, he looked rather like a Volkswagen...
...Windsors" is like a prime-time serial, it is one that, before Lady Diana Spencer joined the cast, was having ratings problems. The characters had become predictable: no more wildly inappropriate flings for Princess Margaret; prickly Princess Anne had turned goody-goody; crusty Philip made nary a gaffe; and the Queen, as ever, was placid perfection. For Charles, the role of bachelor Prince was becoming old hat; the public grew tired of a succession of Charlie's Angels but never a bride. Then, like an inspired casting director, Charles picked an unlikely ingenue for the role of Princess: the girl...
...Diana has become a British national monument. According to one recent tally in The Book of Money Lists, the Princess of Wales is a bigger draw than Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliament combined. In the past two years she has generated some $66.6 million in revenue from magazines, books and tourism...
Charles and Diana are not exactly two peas in a pod. He adores opera; she revels in rock 'n' roll. He plows through historical biographies; she leafs through romance novels. He loves polo; she prefers the pool. Yet they do appear to be in love. Assorted smooches in the woods and snuggles on the polo field are the public sparks of what seems a private passion. Their public displays of affection are thawing out the normally frozen reserve of royal protocol. Charles and Diana try to spend as much time together as possible. The breakfast hour is kept sacred; during...
While they are both adjusting to married life, Diana has the added % difficulty of getting used to living in the crystal palace of royal life. In addition to the loss of privacy, the duties--opening factories, pressing thousands of hands, walking about dreary industrial towns--can be as tedious as they are arduous. The ITV interviewer, Sir Alastair Burnet, asked Diana whether she had anticipated that she would not even be able to walk down a street without kicking up a fuss. Her forthright answer: "No. I didn...