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After a tree-planting ceremony at the embassy followed by a brief lunch with Sir Oliver and Lady Wright, the Ambassador and his wife, who are the official hosts of the royal couple, Charles and Diana went their separate ways. He went to the American Institute of Architects and she, accompanied by Barbara Bush, visit ed the Washington Home, a residence for the elderly and infirm. Inside the striking cement-and-glass A.I. A. headquarters, Charles heard about one of his pet subjects, the revitalization of urban areas. After the round-table discussion, the Prince strolled over to the Octagon...
...talent. The guests included Actors Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck and John Travolta, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who was seated at Diana's right), Architect I.M. Pei, Explorer Jacques Cousteau, Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Hockney, and Nancy's cat pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping with royal preferences, was light: lobster mousseline with Maryland crab followed by glazed chicken capsicum and a dessert of peach sorbet. The President and the Prince each was to give a toast; but the Prince, complaining of jet lag, sat down without actually offering one. He then stood up, saying sheepishly, "Excuse...
Charles and Diana ("She's a bag of energy," said Royal Press Secretary Michael Shea) rose early the next morning to attend a service at the Washington Cathedral. Charles read Chapter 35 from Isaiah ("Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not") and was given a kneeling pillow at his pew that was hand needlepointed by his grandmother the Queen Mum and donated to the cathedral as a war memorial...
That night, a gala dinner for the royal couple was planned for the National Gallery, where guests included various Washington luminaries, such as Treasury Secretary James Baker, and a coterie of well-heeled benefactors of the gallery. Charles and Diana were to depart the next morning for Palm Beach to go directly to the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club. Charles, who has brought along his own equipment for his favorite sport, will engage in a friendly match. Plans for the pregame festivities, rife with quirky Americana, included appearances by Disney World's Minnie and Mickey Mouse, a kind...
...evening's ball at the Breakers Hotel, given in honor of one of the Prince's favorite causes, the United World College Fund. Only then, after their last dinner, their last handclasp, their last quip and thank-you, only then would the tired, probably overfed and over-fawned-upon royal couple fly back to London. They would get home just in time to celebrate the Prince's 37th birthday with William and Harry and for Diana to tell her boys bedtime stories about her whirlwind trip to the colonies and how pretty the monuments looked against Washington's autumnal foliage...