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After their first two days at Broadlands (home of the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma) and two weeks aboard the royal yacht Britannia in the Mediterranean, the Prince and Princess will try to keep to themselves until late September, when what Charles calls "the family business" will start up again in earnest. Banquets, speeches, presentations, appearances: at least 200 official functions a year, plus one major foreign trip. The monarchy, it is said repeatedly, is above politics. But the monarchy has a political effect and the wedding demonstrated it, in the same way that it suggested the promise...
...Welly is hurled and the tots take the vows, Charles and Diana should have departed the palace breakfast and started, via British Rail, on the first stage of their honeymoon. They will spend their first two days as husband and wife at Broadlands, once the home of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Ahead, after their two-week Mediterranean cruise aboard the Britannia, lie the more serious duties of government and the more exacting chores of their official life together...
...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...
Charles, however, had quite another destiny to follow, and stronger men, like his father, to guide him. He was being readied for a kingship that "more and more depends on personal example," remarked the late Earl Mountbatten, who is considered to have had as strong an influence on Charles' life as any teacher-or even any parent. The politics of the future King of England are not a matter for the public record, although Mountbatten pointed out that "Charles is completely devoid of color prejudice. He just can't understand what the prejudices can be about. In this...
King was a man filled with folie de grandeur, saying 'I can fix it.' I said, 'This is rank treason. Out.' " As it happened, King himself soon became the victim of a coup of sorts. Two days after the Mountbatten meeting, he personally penned a vitriolic anti-Wilson editorial in the Daily Mirror, an I.P.C. paper. The company's board of directors was so incensed that King was fired and Cudlipp installed as chairman...