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...Prince of Wales, she left the island gasping. Attending a benefit recital at the Goldsmiths' Hall -close to St. Paul's Cathedral, where the royal couple will be married July 29-the Queen-to-be stepped out in a strapless, black silk-taffeta evening gown that radiated a wolf-whistle glamour not associated with Britain's ruling ladies for generations. (But certainly in the tradition of England's first Princess of Wales, the fair wife of Edward, the Black Prince. Holding forth in English-ruled Bordeaux in the 1360s, the Princess scandalized a local lord with...
...government were being buffeted by bleak statistics and sour skepticism. But in her quietly elegant office at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a study in controlled serenity nearing the end of another demanding day. Wearing a sleek black and gold-lamé dinner gown she had chosen for an earlier portrait sitting, she talked animatedly with London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo and TIME'S Frank Melville. On economic issues she was the patient teacher, with some pointers for the new occupant of the White House. On world affairs she was "the Iron Lady," standing...
Nancy Reagan, her hair swept back into a chignon anchored by four pearl-and-diamond clasps, and wearing a stunning beaded, one-shoulder James Galanos gown, stayed at her husband's side as they visited all ten balls. At a few stops, Reagan spoke of the hostages-"prisoners of war," he purposefully called them-but generally he kept to an aw-shucks-so-glad-you're-here routine. Said he to guests at the Washington Hilton: "I've finally decided that I'm not going to wake up. It isn't a dream." The Reagans...
...formal wear rental store in the capital was stripped of tails. In accordance with the Cinderella rule, which precludes a new First Lady from disclosing her gala getup, Nancy would not say what she will wear for the ball, though rumor has it that it will be a white gown by Galanos, one of her favorite designers (price for the ordinary buyer: up to $8,000). She will wear white shoes and carry a rhinestone-decked white handbag by Manhattan's Judith Lieber, who makes the priciest totes in America...
...presidential chest is 44 in.; during the campaign his waistline expanded from 36.25 in. to 37 in. Nancy's size-6 measurements have not changed a stitch in 15 years, according to Adolfo. She is sufficiently confident of her fit and taste to order a gown by phone after seeing one she likes in a fashion magazine...