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...painstakingly selected wardrobe, and the veneer of her impeccable bearing, Diana was the anti-royal, and as she came into her own, particularly towards the end of her life, she began to enjoy her role as agitator-in-chief. No one, it has been reported, could frustrate the Queen more than Diana. Even in death, Diana maintained the upper hand, her popularity so eclipsed that of the Queen (or any royal, for that matter...
...When Diana died in Paris on August 31, 1997, the royals' stiff-lipped response provoked outrage from the British people. Chastened, Queen Elizabeth spoke to her subjects one week later, extolling her former daughter-in-law's grace, her charity work and her gift for laughter...
During his three-year stint as Swiss envoy to Berlin, Borer, 45, did just that. He and his wife Shawne Fielding, 34, a former Texas beauty queen, became fixtures on the German capital's party circuit and in the popular press. Establishment figures back home may have been perturbed by Fielding's appearance in a German magazine photo spread, but Borer makes no apology for the shots of his glamorous blonde wife in a strapless gown astride a horse and toting toy guns in a red miniskirt - a dollar sign above her cleavage - on the roof the newly refurbished embassy...
...search of different art, culture - and weather. The following century saw Nice inundated with French, English and Russian aristocrats. In La Belle Epoque Nice was such a popular destination for its mild winter, Kanigel says, that it "luxuriated in civic self-confidence [and] flaunted its excesses." England's Queen Victoria visited five years in a row for a couple of months each winter, along with 60 staff. After World War I a series of setbacks - the Great Depression, German occupation, local corruption scandals - took their toll, even as sunbathing became fashionable and ordinary folk began flocking...
...radio stations exiled Jerry Lee's music, and Sun Records issued his next single, "Lewis Boogie," as the B side of a derisive novelty number called "The Return of Jerry Lee," which intercut snippets of his records with a reporter's mock-interrogation. "What did Queen Elizabeth say about you?" "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire...