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Draped in a most unladylike damp cloth, the gray clay figure looked more like Aphrodite rising from the sea than the future Queen of England. But the royal figure of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, will be appropriately demure by the time it joins the waxed likenesses of Prince Charles, 32, her husband-to-be, at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. A plaster mold was made of Sculptor Muriel Pearson's feat of clay, from which a wax figure is being shaped; later it will be colored and dressed. The Di will be cast shortly before...
...months' imprisonment, the publishers nevertheless ordered the staff to proceed; by midmorning, an outsize print run of 925,000 copies was being distributed throughout West Germany. The offending article: a six-page cover story headlined "The Whole Truth About the Phone Calls Between Prince Charles and Lady Diana: No Scandal, but Love, Longing and a Touch of Sadness...
...cooperation. Said the Prince's solicitor, Matthew Farrer: "We are quite satisfied that the telephone conversations of which this purports to be a transcript did not take place." That afternoon, British Secretary of Trade John Biffen banned the import of the offending issue. By Friday night, Charles and Diana had seen all of Die Aktuelle's transcripts. Their verdict: all were fake...
...transcripts themselves were not very convincing. They contained little that had not already been reported or speculated about in the press. Most of the purported conversations were completely innocuous. Diana is quoted as telling Charles how much she misses him, and pleading with him not to leave her alone so long in the future. Charles complains that he is bored with Australia and the lack of humor in Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Diana says some of her relatives are getting on her nerves as the wedding approaches...
...restraint than principle: the High Court ruling against Regan applied to publications as well. Thus on Saturday morning, though the story commanded headlines, not one paper printed the magazine's excerpts. The Guardian came close, paraphrasing portions touching on Prune Minister Eraser's sense of humor and Diana's reported surprise at learning her Prince had a bald patch on his head. For the time being, at least, monarchy-mad British readers would have to content themselves with sanitized hints...