Word: mogg
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William Rees-Mogg, chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Council and former editor of the Times of London, also made an unusual, almost romantic appeal for some sympathy for the beleaguered couple. Writing in the Independent, a dead-serious newspaper that makes a point of ignoring the royals when at all possible, he noted, "The Prince of Wales is not a tiresome cad, the Princess of Wales is not a crazy witch...
...Philip, whose military deportment may have terrified the little boy. Philip thought it took a hard education to make a strong prince, and packed the sensitive Charles off to Gordonstoun in Scotland -- a place that was as much marine boot camp as school. He hated it. Of Diana, Rees-Mogg said that "she knows herself to be a remarkable person, and remarkable people usually need to be admired. It is no good asking a star to accept the role of a glowworm...