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...from boarding school to the movies with friends, called his father to tell him he'd be stopping home for a change of clothes. Prince Charles asked his son if he would not mind spending a few moments with a houseguest, one the boy had never met before--Charles' mistress of 26 years, Camilla Parker Bowles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Time For Tea | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...LIAISON DANGEREUSE] While leading a British expedition through the colony of New York, he spent his nights "singing, drinking, gambling and carousing with his mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes Front! And That Means You, Sir! | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...have had to find other things to fret about. Northern Ireland has been obligingly explosive, of course -- and now that other old standby, the royal family, has offered up its requisite amount of gossip. Wednesday a spokeswoman for Prince Charles confirmed that Camilla Parker Bowles, the Prince's longtime mistress, has met Prince William for the first time. When Diana was alive, Camilla was kept very much in the shadows. Her sudden flurry of interest in Charles' son -- they reportedly got together three times over the last month -- has sparked rumors that Camilla is about to become a stepmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consorting With Camilla | 7/9/1998 | See Source »

...least after Cubism--was sex. The female nude was his obsessive subject. Everything in his pictorial universe, especially after 1920, seemed related to the naked bodies of women. Picasso imposed on them a load of feeling, ranging from dreamy eroticism (as in some of his paintings of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter in the '30s) to a sardonic but frenzied hostility, that no Western artist had made them carry before. He did this through metamorphosis, recomposing the body as the shape of his fantasies of possession and of his sexual terrors. Now the hidden and comparatively decorous puns of Cubism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Artist PABLO PICASSO | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...their eyebrows when the young woman left the seamstress job they had helped her get to try for a career as a cabaret singer. This stint as a performer--she was apparently charming but no Piaf--led her to take up with the local swells and become the backup mistress of Etienne Balsan, a playboy who would finance her move to Paris and the opening of her first hat business. That arrangement gave way to a bigger and better deal when she moved on to his friend, Arthur ("Boy") Capel, who is said to have been the love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Designer COCO CHANEL | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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