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...tragedy that recently unfolded at John E. DuPont's estate, Foxcatcher, was undeniably bizarre. However, it should not have been much of a surprise to anyone who was familiar with the alleged killer. DuPont, the heir to one of America's largest family fortunes, made no efforts to conceal his mental instability...
...YORK CITY: In an industry that rarely keeps big secrets, media executives on both coasts were startled by the abrupt ouster of Frank Biondi as chief executive of Viacom late Wednesday. Biondi, a former HBO executive long viewed as the heir apparent to billionaire Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, was widely respected for his management of an empire that included Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster Books, Blockbuster Entertainment and MTV. In a terse statement issued after the financial markets concluded trading for the day, Viacom said that Redstone, 72, had taken over Biondi's responsibilities and would be forming an executive committee...
...will always be the mother of William, presumably the next King but one. By tradition, a postdivorce Diana would retain the title Princess of Wales unless she remarried. The Queen might even allow her, as a courtesy, to remain "Her Royal Highness," a title reserved for those who are heir to the throne or married to the heir. Financial support and access to the children have probably already been worked out. But Diana's aspiration to become "queen of people's hearts," or a kind of roving ambassador, will be difficult to define. Last week Prime Minister John Major said...
Charles' future is constrained by two pieces of 18th century legislation: the 1701 Act of Settlement, which requires the heir not to be or to marry a Roman Catholic (no problem, since Parker-Bowles is not, though she was married to one), and the 1772 Royal Marriages Act, which allows the heir to marry only with permission of the sovereign, or, if the heir is older than 25, to declare his intention to marry and go ahead only if both houses of Parliament have not objected after 12 months...
...from the upper class and a virgin. The last criterion has to do less with morality than with the purity of the product. She was, to put it crudely, enlisted as a breeder, charged with the job of transmitting the Windsor genes from Charles to his eventual replacements--"an heir and a spare," as some British delicately describe her sons, the little princelings...