Word: kensington
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...from over. The announcement came not from Buckingham Palace but from Princess Diana's press representative, Jane Atkinson. She said that after the divorce, Diana would be known as Diana, Princess of Wales (a common styling for a titled widow or divorcee), she would keep her magisterial apartment in Kensington Palace, and she would continue to be a part of all decisions regarding the couple's sons (the Queen has final control of Prince William's upbringing...
...that she would agree to a divorce from Prince Charles. Diana said she and Charles had agreed to terms which would allow her to keep her title as "Princess of Wales" -- although she may no longer be "Her Royal Highness" -- and she would maintain a residence in London's Kensington Palace. The Princess apparently thought the deal was virtually done, but a spokesman for the crown said nothing, including any financial settlement, would be finalized for some time. Diana had declared that she did not want to end the marriage, but after she gave a very public airing of very...
...have lied about his education. When Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, elected Whitacre a trustee in May, the school said he held a master's degree in business from Northwestern University's prestigious Kellogg School. In fact, Whitacre earned his M.B.A. last year through mail-order courses from Kensington University in Glendale, California. A Millikin spokesman said the information about Kellogg came from "Whitacre's office" at ADM headquarters in Decatur; that left open the possibility that the company, rather than Whitacre, had pumped up his resume...
...despite such precautions, London is still vulnerable. In July a well-dressed woman succeeded in parking an Audi near the Israeli embassy, just down the street from Kensington Palace. Though she was questioned by a security guard, he accepted her claim that she was visiting a friend in the neighborhood. She hurried away, and soon after, the car exploded...
...made some 300 hang-up calls to a well-connected London art dealer, Oliver Hoare, 48. Hoare feared the calls were the work of terrorists who knew his business is in Middle Eastern art. But according to the tabloid, a police investigation showed they were made from phones in Kensington Palace, where Diana lives, from pay phones near the palace, from Diana's car phone and from the home of her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale...