Word: mother
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...violence that includes stabbing a mental health worker. Sent repeatedly to mental institutions in suburban Philadelphia, she kept getting sprung, thanks in part to various courts' strict interpretations of Pennsylvania's involuntary- commitment law. A year ago, she was committed for 20 days after trying to choke her mother but, against the recommendation of her psychiatrist, was released yet again. Last week Seegrist's mother Ruth tried to persuade her daughter to commit herself to a hospital for treatment. "She said I had no business telling her what to do and that I couldn't make her do anything...
...preference that she lie in at the palace. Diana then chose a decidedly unstuffy and untraditional nanny named Barbara Barnes (Prince William calls her Ba-ba). Diana is not of the children-should-be-seen-and-not-heard school of absentee royal mom. She is a hands-on mother, and some palace observers say that Barnes is driven half- batty by Diana's frequent nocturnal visits to the nursery...
...Gloucestershire countryside chasing rabbits while Prince Henry was being baptized at Windsor expressed her aloofness from Charles and Diana, as well as pique that she had not been chosen the child's godmother. (There were six godparents, headed by Charles' brother Prince Andrew.) Diana's relationship with her mother-in-law is amiable but not close. "A bit like the Queen and the Prime Minister," says one source. "A healthy respect, but no great affection." The Queen, who is the staunchest, most vigilant protector of the monarchy, is nonetheless well pleased by Diana's invigoration of the crown...
...Alice, who has not only a husband but also a hospital job in both ports, is also the mother of three. Simon (Rachid Ferrauche), her Parisian 10-year-old by Philippe, is not only quite pale but also slightly pink, and already attending socialist rallies and talking proletariat revolution. With Vincent, in the more sedate suburbs, she has a boy and a girl who are bratty in a more usually puerile sense...
Semyonov said his mother will likely receive heart surgery to treat a condition she has developed from three heart attacks and also undergo treatment for glaucoma if she comes to the United States. This would mark the fourth time since 1975 that Bonner has been allowed to seek medical treatment abroad...