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...Lord God Made Them All, Herriot...
...thing quite straight," the late Lord Mountbatten said in 1978. "The Queen is not going to abdicate. Everyone would advise her not to, beginning with the Prince of Wales." Last week a source close to the royal family told TIME: "It is a fair assumption that the Queen will continue on the throne for as long as her health permits, and she, with her family's support, feels she has a useful job to do for the state." One member of the immediate family also made it quite clear that Charles will have a long wait-perhaps...
Like all great extravaganzas, the royal wedding requires a producer (the Lord Chamberlain) and a director (Lieut. Colonel John F.D. Johnston, who recently received a knighthood for his organizational skills). It also, of course, has a supporting cast of thousands. Along with the home-grown aristocrats, there are all the invited guests: political (Nancy Reagan); monarchical (Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, the King and Queen of Sweden, the Duke and Duchess of Liechtenstein); social (Sabrina Guinness, Sir Hugh Casson); and sentimental (Flo Moore, who kept Charles' Cambridge rooms in order; Henry and Cora Sands, who provided Charles with some...
Throughout Western Europe, Begin's reputation fell to an all-time low. Lord Carrington, the British Foreign Secretary, called in the Israeli Ambassador to warn him that pre-emptive strikes, "with their horrible trail of human destruction, cannot conceivably advance the cause of peace." In Paris and Bonn, top officials were equally scathing in private...
Dumas Malone ∙ The Lord...