Word: regents
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Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, feeling much better, and explaining where her husband Charles was, after a ceremony in which she switched on Christmas lights in Regent Square: "I've left him at home watching the telly...
What to wear to the investiture? Maria Lea Pedini, 26, first woman Captain-Regent of tiny San Marino (a country 24 miles square perched on a mountainside in Italy), shunned the flat hat and knickers demanded by tradition last week. The pretty wife and mother chose a skirt and more feminine chapeau from a Milan designer. La Capitana wants reform in the world's oldest republic, where women were barred from voting until 1960, and where even today women lose citizenship if they marry foreigners. One obstacle to change: her term lasts only six months...
Wherever the "Queen Mum" went during the monthlong birthday jubilee, which had its finale last week, crowds gathered to cheer her. Regent Street shops were awash in commemorative wares. Gifts-ranging from fishing tackle to a chiffon hat-poured into her residence, Clarence House...
...Chicago the antique-filled Tremont and Whitehall, both with fewer than 230 rooms and opened within the past six years, are doing so well that there is plenty of business left over for two newcomers, the year-old Raphael and the Mayfair Regent, due to open this fall. Chicago Hotelier John Coleman, who owns the Tremont, the Whitehall and Washington's Fairfax and is renovating Manhattan's Navarro for a fall reopening, has a simple guiding philosophy: make the well-heeled traveler "feel at home...