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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mirror bites Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Royal Pain | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...most eligible bachelor, Prince Charles produces front-page palpitations every time he is seen with a marriageable young woman. Until now, however, Buckingham Palace has kept a discreetly stiff upper lip when Fleet Street attempted to handicap the Prince's love life. Thus it was highly unusual when Queen Elizabeth II through her spokesman publicly denounced London's Sunday Mirror last month for a story linking the Prince and Lady Diana Spencer, 19, the winsome blond whom many Britons expect to be the next Queen. The Sunday Mirror's response was even more unusual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Royal Pain | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...source of the Queen's ire was a Sunday Mirror report that the couple had secretly spent two evenings alone together aboard the royal train during an official visit by the Prince to the West Country. "A total fabrication!" charged Her Majesty's press secretary, Michael Shea. He demanded a full apology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Royal Pain | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...dart board with a picture on it of Rona Barrett, and they would throw darts at it and make insulting remarks about her. Then when she called, they'd be all sweetness and light." The columnist, a breathless, electronic update of Louella Parsons, Hollywood's gossip queen of the '40s, left the show last September for Today, where she will start in January. Rushnell, who took over hi May 1978, brags that he cleared out nearly a third of the show's employees, the malcontents, as he calls them. "Now," he says, sounding like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Morning | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Mae West, 87, legendary sex queen of stage and screen; in Hollywood (see SHOW BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 1, 1980 | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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