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...LORD BYRON, poet...
...Mary Shelley, famous now (and even then) as the author of Frankenstein, was casting about for a new idea for a novel. She was in emotional straits. She had already buried three children before her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, drowned in 1822. Their friend Lord Byron had just died in Greece. She felt as if everyone she knew?the age itself in which she lived?was passing away around...
...quite. On Tuesday afternoon, the butler was back and he had a letter - just not the one Diana had written. Instead, Burrell wrote his own letter, a "private and confidential" one to the judge, Lord Justice Scott Baker who, in turn, paraphrased it for the court. Burrell had made a mistake: the Diana letter wasn't in his Cheshire home, but actually at his house in Florida. He would send it to the court once he retrieved it; in the meantime, Burrell would let the judge in on the secret - as long as he didn't tell. But Baker said...
...since died - say to her daughter during a phone call in June 1997, a call that Diana had let Burrell listen in on. At first, Burrell balked, saying, "Respectfully, that's not very kind to a woman who's no longer here." But the judge ruling over the inquest, Lord Justice Scott Baker, insisted. Burrell stared down at his desk, chewed his lower lip, took a deep breath, and then, as his voice started to crack, said: "She called the Princess a whore and said she was messing around with eff-ing Muslims and she was disgraceful and said some...
There were seven of us gathered in the Red Wall Hotel in Beijing?an Australian criminal lawyer for the insane, a Scottish lord living out his 007 fantasies, two communism-curious retired Italian mechanics, a retired Italian pilot who made a sport of traveling to the world's most inaccessible places and a young Italian accountant living in Austria. And me, the not-so-secret journalist from Canada who was surprised to even be invited. We had all signed up for a most peculiar adventure: we were going to North Korea. As tourists...