Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles' birthday came and went, with no engagement announcement from Buckingham Palace. That hardly squelched expectations. Diana, after all, had spent the birthday weekend with the royal family at their country home, Sandringham House. It seemed to be a sure indication that she was a serious contender to become the bride of Britain's future King. Charles himself was besieged by inquiring photographers a few days later when he was walking one of his Labradors. Said the Prince, when asked about a possible betrothal: "You will find out soon enough." With that, Britain's latest national pastime...
Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace asked the Sunday Mirror to retract a story claiming that Prince Charles had twice smuggled Lady Diana aboard the royal train for love trysts. "There is not a word of truth in it," insisted a Palace press secretary. The retraction demand originated with Prince Charles, according to the spokesman, but the Queen also "wished this to be done." The highly unusual request indicated a special regard for Lady Diana and a strong desire to protect her reputation...
...gossipy accounts of his amorous adventures, whether fanciful or real, in good-natured stride. The pressure has been rather more trying for his girl friends. A few years ago, for example, Lady Jane Wellesley, a self-assured brunet, was discovered to have spent a weekend at one of the royal residences. The press descended en masse on the Chelsea travel agency where she worked. "Get rid of them and don't come back at all if you can't," warned her angry boss. Said a relative afterward: "It was as if she had been found guilty of some...
Taxes were up. The rent was coming due. Everyone needed a job and was worried about going bust. In this Dickensian situation, the Royal Shakespeare Company, by a kind of inevitable inspiration, turned to Dickens...
...that it will return. This is a company for sharp risks and controlled experiment, which insists not only on tradition but also on the right-indeed, the artistic necessity-to fail. A recent week's sampling of R.S.C. fare in London and Stratford, where the company runs the Royal Shakespeare Theater and an experimental house called the Other Place, showed the company in hot pursuit of both ends of the spectrum. In London, besides the astonishing Nicholas, the company offered an excellent Juno and the Paycock, with a force-of-nature performance by Judi Dench, and, at the Warehouse...