Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...successful foreign trips, there came reports that the princess was falling apart. Diana grew suddenly allergic to the cameras that follow her everywhere. "You make my life hell," she yelled at a photographer who ambushed her outside a London movie theater. She spent more and more nights alone at Kensington Palace, watching TV. There were reports that she was once again suffering from bulimia. Last month she left a royal charity gala in tears: "a migraine" was the official explanation...
Diana looks to be the victor in the separation negotiations. Care of the children will be shared, but Diana gets a reported $1.55 million a year, the Kensington Palace apartments, a staff that is mostly her own, continuance of her status as a senior member of the royal family and a life free from Charles' glower. She may have insisted on Major's underscoring her right to be ^ Queen. With the clamor in Parliament, this may be an unrealistic notion. But Diana should not be counted out; her friends say the public has not seen the extent of her portfolio...
...nodding off on daises, as well as the occasional hogging of the spotlight at her husband's expense when the press is around. Diana has found her role. She is a thoroughly modern princess who is an ebullient companion to her boys (there is plenty of help, however, around Kensington Palace) and a zealous patron of her charities. Though she lives by the bizarre protocols of a make-believe world, she & radiates accessibility. Most commentators consider her the most effective member of the royal family, and her popularity in polls zoomed when she checked into the hospital last month...
...describes herself as a healing therapist, but to her landlord Sara Dale is a pain in the neck. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont discovered via London's tabloids last week that he had rented his million- dollar home in Kensington to a tenant who the News of the World claimed conducted kinky sadomasochistic sessions in the basement. Dale denied she was a prostitute and explained that she helps people with a variety of problems, not all of them sexual. But she admitted that her techniques occasionally require that she use whips and chains on her clients -- a service...
...home in London's fashionable Kensington, Antonia Pakenham Fraser Pinter is a composition by Gainsborough. Her English skin would make peaches weep in their cream. Blue eyes seem to savor a secret, shared but not revealed. She is tall, not willowy but womanly, and at 57 she is, by any standard, beautiful...