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Still more royal fury was to come. Next day, in a step unprecedented in the history of the British monarchy, the Queen sued Kenny and News Group for unspecified monetary damages. The royal family's use of injunctions to block unwelcome disclosures in the press is not new. In 1849 Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert went to court to forestall publication of sketches drawn by himself and his wife. The last use was in May 1981 to prohibit distribution of alleged transcripts of telephone conversations between Prince Charles and his then fiancée Lady Diana...
Buckingham Palace offered no official explanation of the thinking behind the extraordinary step, but stern legal action may have been under consideration for some time. In an interview with TIME for the Feb. 28 cover story on "Royalty vs. the Pursuing Press," the Queen's press secretary Michael Shea said, "We might have to move forward some policy of sanction. The line should be drawn between legitimate public interest, which all members of the royal family recognize, and prurient or highly intrusive following of private lives...
When the suit was filed, with Queen Elizabeth's approval, she was 6,000 miles away aboard the royal yacht Britannia, leaving La Paz, Mexico, for San Diego, the next stop on her month-long visit to North America. The target of the Sun's story, Prince Andrew, was also at sea, after a weekend recreational visit to Florida, with the Royal Navy ship on which he serves, H.M.S. Invincible. Andrew was pursued by a battalion of U.S. and foreign reporters and photographers, frenziedly but fruitlessly seeking signs of a rendezvous between the Prince and soft-porn Actress...
...nights of free hotel accommodations, free rental of a Cadillac or Lincoln for 14 days and two round-trip plane tickets to a major city in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Bermuda, the Bahamas or the Caribbean. Avis has countered with such prizes as color TVs, cruises on the Queen Elizabeth II and free tickets on TWA flights worldwide...
...spends his time fending off women rather than seducing them; Tom Paine (Harvey Keitel), pamphleteer of the American rebellion; and the journalist Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault), to name just the historical personages aboard. Among the fictional creations are a lady-in-waiting to the Queen (Hanna Schygulla), Her Majesty's snippy homosexual hairdresser, a widow in need of consolation, a judge, an arms manufacturer and an aging opera singer heading for a small role in the provinces. Some know, some suspect, some do not particularly care who is in the coach ahead. Some will have turned...