Word: princess
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...experience it first: to sit in the dark, the shadow and light of space battle flashing on their spellbound faces. And they came back over and over again. I drove by at least one long, snaking line in Westwood, holding down the humiliating urge to screech, "Yes! I am Princess Leia Organa, come to tell you all, come to tell you all!" But what had I come to tell them? So I didn't say anything. I just stared in amazement and wondered what it would ultimately mean. And now, when an old man of 43 or so strolls timidly...
They had finished an intimate dinner at the Ritz Hotel, and Dodi Fayed, an Egyptian-born multimillionaire, and Princess Diana were on their way to his opulent 10-room apartment overlooking the Champs-Elysees. But the couple never made it to Fayed's place. At 12:23 a.m. the speeding Mercedes in which Diana, 36, and Fayed were riding crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel on the right bank of the Seine River. Fayed and the intoxicated driver died at the scene. Diana was declared dead at 4 a.m. at Paris' Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital...
...week before the Queen declared admiration for her erstwhile daughter-in-law. Yet Diana had left an indelible mark on the Windsor clan. In the days, weeks and years since, the once staid monarchy has continued to strive for that common touch that made Diana the people's princess. --By Anita Hamilton
...Prince of Wales to her family's Althorp estate for a shooting weekend in November 1977. Sarah was probably joking, since she had had designs on Charles herself. Her sister hardly looked like competition, standing shyly by in a checked shirt and an anorak. Nor was the future princess greatly impressed herself: "What a sad man," she thought of Charles. Her opinion soon changed, and as her father would recall of the weekend, "Somehow she automatically ended up standing at the side of Prince Charles." Years later, she would leave, of course, but that's another story...
...punk princess AVRIL LAVIGNE, charity began in the T-shirt bin at a thrift store, where she found a sporty green-and-gold number that she wore in the video for her song Sk8ter Boi. Turns out the T shirt came from a Wilkesboro, N.C., elementary school, which has since been inundated with calls from fans looking to buy one. The result? A windfall for the school, which was struggling to find cash to pay for new computers. Maybe it could pay Lavigne back by teaching her how to spell skater...