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...stars of the show seemed, especially during all the weeks of feverish preparation, to have been virtually swept off the stage. Charles still pressed on with his ceremonial schedule, even taking a side trip to Dartmoor Prison, whose inmates presented him with a ball-and-chain paperweight. Lady Diana showed up in the stands at Wimbledon, looking fetching and diverting spectator attention from the antics of John McEnroe on Centre Court. The two also appeared together in public-at a wedding and a film premiere-and managed to seem at ease, both with themselves and their adoring subjects. Lady Diana...
Charles did not always appear to think so; not at first anyway. When he and Diana posed on the back terrace of Buckingham Palace on their engagement day, he acted as if he had made a wise choice, a becoming choice, but perhaps not a compelling one. "Are you in love?" asked a reporter. His fiancée beamed, blushed and said yes. The Prince's answer: "Whatever love means"-a remark of rather too much objectivity, hinting at even a touch of weariness...
...that is true, one wonders only what took the Prince so long. He was lagging far behind the media and the public, which wasted no time in elevating Lady Diana into a stellar attraction. Movie stars have become princesses before. Never, however, has a Princess looked so much like a movie star; certainly no Queen-to-be has ever done so much for a pair of blue jeans. Lady Diana's seemingly paradoxical quality of patrician funkiness has caught the spirit of a generation that fancies itself a little more romantic than those...
Taking careful note of all the duplication and trend setting, a Major Ralph Rochester of Malt Field, Devon, dispatched a letter to the Times of London. "Sir," he wrote, "I have observed of late numerous girls who are taking pains to look like Lady Diana; but of the boys I have observed, none is making the least effort to look like the Prince of Wales. How should this be?" One reason may be that the Prince steers clear of trends. His suits are made by Johns & Pegg, Ltd., exclusively military tailors until World War II, which made the naval ceremonial...
...Prince has picked up a little pizazz by association with Lady Diana, she has assumed the beginnings of a royal aspect. Even though she chose to have "obey" deleted from the marriage service, she has not yet dealt successfully with the problem of monarchical chapeaux. Women of the royal family are all encouraged and expected to wear hats for formal occasions. Lady Diana's early efforts to comply with this code have resulted in a couple of wowzers, including one that looked as if the mother ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind had made a forced landing...