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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that she still cares for him and respects him. Her insistence that he has done nothing specifically wrong simply infuriates him more. After the requisite number of tears and drinking bouts, Elgin is forced to realize that he had deceived himself throughout the relationship; Caroline is not a perfect princess and their love did not a fairy tale make. Elgin's child-like dream of a relationship more exalted than a callous one-night stand is smashed unmercifully. His realization that he loved Caroline only as long as she reciprocated becomes an important lesson...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Love, Tears, and a Loss of Innocence | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...million. Besides the toll of inflation, said a palace spokesman, "there have also been extra costs due to the Silver Jubilee." Other royal coffers will get some extra coins as well. The Queen Mother is to get an additional $27,000, bringing her allowance up to $279,000, and Princess Margaret, who was awarded a $9,000 raise, now receives $99,000. Princess Anne gets $90,000, upped from $81,000, which will come in handy for her new $180,000 stables and heated swimming pool for her horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 21, 1977 | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...princess, Queen Elizabeth's sister Margaret has never had much luck with fairy-tale romances. Duty-bound to give up her true love, Group Captain Peter Townsend, she settled for Antony Armstrong-Jones, and is now legally separated. According to Margaret's friends, quoted in the British weekly Woman's Own, the match with Jones came about because Margaret received a letter from Townsend announcing his plans to marry another. "That evening, I became engaged to Tony. It was no coincidence," Margaret told her friends. She has also revealed her doubts about remarrying: "It would probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 10, 1977 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...female monkey 3 gin fizzes and she ran up and down a rope ladder, and the Clever girl was christened by a Russian princess I should like to have violated and there were strawberry gin fizzes and drunken dancing and I was fortunate to get home...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Sherry and Schopenhauer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, had predicted that satisfying all parties would be about as difficult as pleasing the "princess who had big feet and asked a shoemaker to find her a shoe small on the outside and large inside." But the negotiators kept hammering away until the shoe seemed to fit. The treaty will be formally signed later this month or in early September. Torrijos has invited all Latin American heads of state, as well as President Carter, to Panama City for the event, and Carter has indicated that he is willing to go. After the signing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ceding the Canal-Slowly | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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