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Police investigators traced the blue Morris sedan to a parking lot at a hotel in Kensington. One witness also gave them a description of a man seen parking the car just before the Hyde Park bombing. Police believe that the 10-lb. nail bomb, probably hidden in the trunk of the car, was detonated by remote control from a spot within sight of the incident. If true, it was a measure of how cold-blooded the killers were. Police speculate that a similar device may have been used in the Regent's Park explosion...
Next evening, only 20 hours and 57 minutes after giving birth, Diana, Princess of Wales, walked out of the hospital with her baby born to be King. Then they went off to their new home in Kensington Palace...
...Ashley look. A succession of items, including striped garden smocks with three large pockets in front, and long, flowing dresses, sold well in the U.S. and Britain. In 1961 the Ashleys set up their first factory in an old dance hall in Carno, Wales. Opening an experimental shop in Kensington in 1968 convinced them that they could sell their products better than wholesalers could and, with out middlemen, at lower prices...
...Duke of Cornwall, Charles splits the duchy's revenues fifty-fifty with the Treasury; last year he collected ?275,000 tax free (more than $500,000). As the result of a new Treasury agreement, Charles, with an 18th century home in Gloucestershire and a suite in Kensington Palace to keep up, will now pocket 75% of the revenues...
...boys from Fleet Street responded in kind. They found the phone number of the $150,000 South Kensington flat her mother and father had bought for her and which she was sharing with three other young women. Reporters staked the place out and would call up till midnight and as early as six in the morning, badgering Diana for details of the romance. All this moved Mrs. Shand Kydd to write a letter of protest to the Times, and moved her daughter, finally, to tears. After a hectic pursuit from South Kensington to Mayfair, Diana sat and wept...