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...variety of Soviet experts and State Department bureaucrats will accompany Reagan's principal advisers to the summit sessions, mostly to act as functionaries. "Deciding who is going to sit at the table is like deciding who is going to meet Princess Di," says one diplomat...
England and America, George Bernard Shaw once wryly observed, are two lands divided by a common language. But if that dyspeptic Irishman had been around to witness the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Washington last week, he might have noted that the U.S. and Britain are two countries united by an uncommon love of royalty...
...three-day trip to the nation's capital was the penultimate stop on a 19-day gallivant that has already taken them to Australia and, on a brief stopover, to Hawaii, where the Prince went bodysurfing and the Princess received a brilliantly colorful lei ("Oh, how sweet they smell," she said). After Washington, they were set to jet down to Palm Beach, Fla., for a brisk game of polo and a glittering charity ball for the United World College of the American West...
...special attention to a group of handicapped children. One of them, 16-year-old Jonathan Lollar of Ocean Springs, Miss., got his dearest wish. Blind and suffering from an inoperable tumor, Lollar was enabled by the Make-a-Wish Foundation of America to come to Washington to meet the Princess. He was not disappointed. Diana was offered flowers and gifts, which she, like a practiced quarterback, deftly handed off to a lady-in-waiting behind...
...Victoria passing by. I wouldn't wave at that ugly old woman." She did, however, talk animatedly with a pretty young one about English gardens. For nearly an hour, these faltering men and women in the shadow of life became Washington's brightest social elite, the recipients of a Princess's interest...