Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, 45, a Ghent lawyer who has led five coalition governments in three years, began to administer bitter economic medicine to reverse the country's decline. He secured emergency powers for one year to establish economic reforms by royal decree, rather than through parliament. Martens announced an 8.5% devaluation of the franc and, most important, suspended Belgium's system of indexing all wages to inflation. "This is the tenth time in Belgian history that the government has been given special powers by the King," Martens told TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton. "Many...
...used as a figurehead .. . and the sister of you-know-who." The weary speaker is H.R.H. Princess Margaret, royal subject of this most common volume, currently a sensation in Britain. It is not difficult...
Given this backstairs acrimony it is hardly a surprise when the divorce further isolates Margaret from the simple life in Balmoral and Buckingham. With her companion Roddy, 18 years her junior, she begins tripping around the Caribbean, vainly searching for health and cheer. Dempster pores over royal records and checks back issues of the newspapers, but one of his most reliable sources seems to be an old friend of Margaret's whose drug-dependent son sold photographs of the princess to pay off his pusher. By the final curtain, Margaret and Roddy have split and the public is once...
...press spokesman, the normally sedate Michael Shea, called the peeping Tom photographs "the worst sort of taste." It seems the prying paparazzi of the British press offended the royal family by capturing the straw-hatted Diana, Princess of Wales, vacationing on a Bahamian beach. The telephoto-lens pictures, taken by enterprising photographers from a nearby beach, were plastered all over the Sun, Britain's largest selling daily, and the Daily Star. It was a picture of a standing Diana in a strapless bikini, revealing her gently rounded royal tummy, that offended regal sensibilities most. The next...
...author tries to like his old boss, but phrases like "royal hauteur," "the armor of arrogance" and "unreflective activist" keep popping up. He admires the gubernatorial record, but is disturbed by what he feels was Rockefeller's emotional freeze after ordering the grisly assault on rebellious prisoners at Attica. Behind the image of a liberal Republican was an old-fashioned cold-warrior and bare-taloned hawk, who dismissed all Viet Nam draft resisters with the remark, "Those guys just didn't want to get killed...