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...There is no evidence that the Duke of Edinburgh ordered Diana's execution.' LORD JUSTICE SCOTT BAKER, coroner, testifying at a trial to determine what caused the 1997 car accident that resulted in Princess Diana's death...
...story since the death of Princess Diana has played as big in the British press as the disappearance last May 3 of British toddler Madeleine McCann from a vacation apartment in Portugal. But as the U.K.'s famously aggressive tabloid press prepares stories to mark the anniversary of that sad event, they are now likely to proceed with uncharacteristic caution: on Wednesday, London's High Court handed a libel victory to the child's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, with a chilling effect...
...touched by a magic wand," says 28-year-old Maria de Lujan Telpuk of the incident that changed her life. Not that it turned the former kindergarten teacher into the sort of princess that appeared in the fairy tales she might once have read to her class - Telpuk's meteoric rise to national fame was consecrated by her naked appearance on the cover of February's Argentina edition of Playboy. But it's the suitcase she's holding in that photograph, bearing the flags of Argentina and Venezuela, and the cover line "Corruption Laid Bare" that reveal the story...
...about as brutal as anything you're likely to see in the movies these days. The only major laugh line is supplied by Lord Mountbatten, that grandest of all modern courtiers. Recruited as a kind of bag man for the secret service, he receives the nasty photograph of the Princess, with the blithest of comments: "She always was a scalawag." But this picture is not after comedy, it is aiming for larger ironies. And delivers them effectively in the context of fast-paced and gripping crime drama...
...will perform Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” in honor of the 150th anniversary of the maestro’s birth. The opera, set in legendary Peking, focuses on a suitor named Calaf, who must answer the three riddles of the enchanting but cruel princess Turandot to win her hand and keep his head.The costumes in “Turandot” attempt to stay faithful to traditional styles of Chinese dress while maintaining Puccini’s vision of Peking as a grandiose Orientalist fantasy. Though LHO has often borrowed costumes in the past...