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...turned out, the synopsis was unhappily apt. As the Queen found her footing in the course of a harbor tour, acting San Diego Mayor William Cleator, trying to be helpful, put his palm lightly, briefly on her back. Some San Diegans were scandalized by the mayor's familiarity, and sensation-hungry Fleet Street reporters pounced. "The Queen was visibly bothered," the Daily Express huffed, "and frowned her disapproval...
Following church on Sunday, an Episcopal service at which Prince Philip read from I Corinthians 3 for 600 fellow congregants, they flew on Air Force Two to Palm Springs for an idyl with Publisher Walter Annenberg. The royals' limousine wheeled into the driveway just past the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Frank Sinatra Drive, beyond the 30-ft-tall reproduction Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador...
...know Annenberg better, and was so impressed that in 1976 she made him an honorary knight. That odd affinity between the prim and discreet Queen and the rough-hewn millionaire partly explains why she accepted his invitation to join him for lunch last week at his desert estate near Palm Springs. Another probable reason was royal curiosity about the estate itself. "So many members of her family and friends have visited Sunnylands and told her so much about it," Annenberg explained...
Still, the Queen of England and the king of the Palm Springs desert would seem to have so little in common that even a member of the royal entourage seemed puzzled. Said he: "There are other ways the Queen could have spent her Sunday. One must assume some element of friendship between the two." Annenberg is reluctant to discuss their relationship. "One has to be terribly careful," he said last week, "or the iron curtain will fall around you just like that...
...driver, boyfriend of Supermodel Christie Brinkley, and heir to the Moët & Chandon champagne fortune; by drowning, when his 1983 Ralt Formula Atlantic spun out of control at 100-plus m.p.h. during a practice run, careered off the track, exploded and sank in a nearby canal; in West Palm Beach...