Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veteran political reporter from Washington, London Correspondent Lansing Lament says that this week's cover story on Britain's Prince Charles was his toughest assignment yet. "I had to become an instant Welsh historian and an amateur genealogist of the royal family." He also had to become a gossip columnist of sorts. In London discotheques and at private parties, he collected scraps of anecdotes from sources within the royal circle. Those scraps, he says, "helped immensely to illuminate the human side of that aloofly detached institution known as the British monarchy. Once the pieces were assembled, a mosaic...
Additional segments were supplied by London Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast, who reported on a mountain-climbing trip with Prince Charles in Wales, and Correspondents Honor Balfour and Monica Dehn, who contributed a study of the British monarchy. The cover story was written by Bob McCabe and edited by Jason McManus, with the help of Researcher Mary McConachie. All loyal Scots by background, they brought to the story a basic sympathy for their fellow Celts...
...installation. It will also serve to signal the end of Charles' royal adolescence (he turns 21 in November) and his acceptance of the role and tasks of apprentice sovereign. Perhaps most important, the ceremony is designed to honor Wales, a region of Britain that too often feels overlooked by London and harbors a small but vocal separatist movement, the Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales). Finally, the event will be the biggest royal bash since Queen Elizabeth's coronation...
...widely rumored that on occasion they even have fights?and fun. Princess Anne, Charles' younger sister, is beginning to give her aunt and uncle a run for the tabloid money. Only 17, she has lately turned from a chubby duckling into a passably delectable swan, wings through London in exotic hats and miniskirts, and recently danced on the stage with the cast of Hair (clad...
...gain support. The Plaid is backed by about 12% of Wales' 2.7 million population, up from only 5% ten years ago. In a 1966 by-election the party succeeded in electing its first MP. The Plaid Cymru demands autonomy for Wales, believing that Wales gets back too little from London compared to what it contributes in taxes and productivity. Culturally, it seeks to preserve and expand the ancient Welsh language, now spoken by about 25% of the population...