Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apprenticeships donated by the Greater Manchester Council! Western boots for Charles, Western chaps for Diana, both from Texas and both from Anne Arm strong, the former American ambassador! A herb garden for Highgrove from the Cranleigh Group of Women's Institutes in Surrey! A lace cushion from the Royal School of Needlework! Two cases of specially blended 'C and D' malt whisky from Macallans Distillery! And - wait until you ladies see this - from Geba, in Germany, kitchen furnishings for every culinary pursuit you can imagine, valued at a grand total of $20,000! And, if you think...
What's behind the curtain will be revealed in due diplomatic course-the palace usually makes the official announcement of wedding gifts soon after the ceremony-but one thing is already clear. The royal newlyweds are coming up a little short on the practical end. "Actually," confessed a palace spokesman, "they have not got a thing." There is an abundance of silver bowls and candlesticks, of course. But Charles has joked about camping "on my orange boxes" at Highgrove, and there are those who are taking him at close to his word. Despite an annual income of well over...
...correct this situation, Charles and Diana raised eyebrows by registering a list of wedding gifts at the General Trading Company, a tony London emporium with a royal warrant to supply fancy goods. Gift givers who are bored by silver and feel that the Germans have pretty well swept the kitchen-equipment field can drop by the store and have a look at the list of some 300 desired items, which include omelette and sauté pans, salt and pepper mills in natural wood, dishes for casseroles and soufflés, 24 champagne glasses, 18 highball tumblers, a dark green tablecloth...
...they must surely be raising a glass this week to drink the health of Prince Charles and his bride, Lady Diana, and marveling how, alone of the larger monarchies, the British model should have survived and be in so flourishing a condition as to be able to mount a royal wedding with all the panache of olden times. It often seems as though our British monarchy, along with our secret intelligence service, represents the only appurtenance of national greatness still extant. And even the intelligence network, it must be admitted, has of late been showing unmistakable signs of decomposition...
...this royal scenario seemed at last to have wound itself up; the kings, if not the captains, had departed, and their courts dispersed, with an occasional sometime highness or excellency making his way to Hollywood in the hope that expertise in matters like ceremonial and uniforms might secure him a job in the studios...