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...well-kept garden apartment in East Orange, N.J., is home to a woman who shook hands with the Queen of England at Centre Court in Wimbledon, a woman who was a queen herself, the reigning tennis champion twice in a row at Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open. But Althea Gibson has vanished from sight...
...dashing Dodi was royalty of a different sort. He was the only son of Mohamed al Fayed and his late first wife Samira Khashoggi, sister of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. The elder Al Fayed is a self-made billionaire whose wealth is greater than the Queen's. His sprawling empire contains some highly prized European properties. In addition to London's fashionable Harrods department store, he owns the Ritz Hotel of Paris, the British humor magazine Punch, the Fulham soccer club and a $32 million, 190-ft. yacht. The senior Al Fayed also holds a long-term lease...
...British citizens. He was a friend of Diana's father, the late Lord Spencer, and employs her stepmother Raine, Countess de Chambrun, as a director of Harrods International, the store's duty-free arm. Al Fayed sponsors the Royal Windsor Horse Show, at which he shares the Queen's box. Still, the British government has for years denied his requests for citizenship without explanation. Al Fayed also deeply resents a 1990 government report criticizing the financing of his takeover of Harrods. The cold shoulder of his adopted home reflects, he says, contempt for Britain's fast-growing immigrant population...
...scattergun of public outrage was let loose on the paparazzi first. But soon it wheeled on drunk-drivers, the British press and the Al-Fayeds before settling, finally and inexplicably, on the Royal Family ? as if the Queen herself had been at the wheel of that Mercedes. When Earl Spencer stood up at his sister's funeral and fired a volley of veiled threats at her former in-laws, the search for scapegoats was complete. So now the world has turned upside-down, perhaps we ought to listen to China's considered opinion on the whole Diana business: "this...
...said. "Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her." For some of those millions, seven minutes of rehearsed sympathies seemed a frustrating display of royal reticence. But at least one subject interviewed afterwards by reporters felt that he understood: the Queen, he insisted, had said all she could...