Word: royalities
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British readers may never learn, however, what that headline was meant to imply. Deeply angered by the increasingly tasteless and intrusive reporting of Britain's tabloid press, the royal household struck back. Within hours after the Sun's opening story hit London newsstands, palace aides representing the Queen sought, and got, a permanent injunction from Britain's High Court banning any further disclosures by Kenny, the Sun or its parent News Group Newspapers Ltd., on the ground that publication would violate the former servant's contractual pledge of secrecy. News Group halted efforts to syndicate...
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...
...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...
Kenny, who was once again out of work, insisted that he meant no harm to his erstwhile employers. He claimed, "I would be very sad if I thought I had upset the royal family. They have never been anything but good...