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Fagan was arrested not during that visit but on a more famous one a month later. In the early hours of July 9, he climbed into the palace. After wandering the corridors, he entered Queen Elizabeth's bedroom and woke the sleeping monarch. Police did not charge Fagan with a crime for that intrusion, since he had not threatened any harm to the Queen or stolen any possessions. Under British law, trespass without causing actual damage or harming anyone is a civil matter and does not carry the risk of a jail sentence. Fagan was on trial...
...Princess' mother Margaret, who gave up modeling (for magazines like Country Gentleman) after commencing her not very happy marriage to John Sr., was the unquestioned monarch of the Kelly clan. Her iron rule was to keep up appearances. There is no doubt that Grace learned much about the royalty trade from Margaret. In 1954 Grace had a serious affair with Designer Oleg Cassini, but against family wishes (he was divorced and not Catholic). Then, over Christmas of 1955, Rainier visited the Kelly mansion in Philadelphia. The unlikely joining of clans was approved...
...Jordan's monarch rules over an arid, oil-deprived, virtually landlocked country of 2.3 million inhabitants. The forces of history and geography have kept Jordan on the front line of the Middle East crisis for nearly four decades. Those same forces, along with Hussein's instinct for political compromise, have given his country a pivotal role to play in the search for peace...
...years. At the beginning of his reign, the King permitted a large degree of democracy. But freedom bred instability, as radical Palestinian groups and supporters of Hussein's bitter enemy, the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, sought to undermine his regime. Hussein now rules as an absolute monarch. The return of political stability has promoted an unprecedented period of prosperity. Unemployment is low; the economy, based on agriculture, mining and tourism, is growing at an annual rate of about 10%. More than half the population lives today in cities, including the Bedouin sheiks, who have largely abandoned their...
...state of their own. But some P.L.O. radicals concede that they are reluctant to overthrow the King because, as one put it, "the minute there is an anti-Hussein coup in Amman we know the Israelis will move into Jordan, and we certainly don't want that." The monarch once despised by the Palestinians is now regarded as a kind of Arab insurance policy against a new Israeli blitz...