Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Glenn spent the next decade working in private industry, most notably (and incongruously) as an executive with the Royal Crown Cola company. In 1974 he parlayed his still glittering name recognition into a seat in the U.S. Senate. Even as a member of Congress, he remained smitten with space travel, but as an aging lawmaker who hadn't been in a flight rotation or ready room in years, he accepted the fact that his professional flying career was over. And it was--at least until three years...
...Florida, California and the Mediterranean, within the next decade. He's betting that the cruise industry, which fills its cabins with discounted fares, can accommodate a competitor that charges 20% higher than the norm (starting at $860 for a three-day cruise, including airfare, compared with $648 on the Royal Caribbean line's Nordic Empress). The ship is heavily subscribed for now, partly because passengers who booked early sailings that had to be canceled were given tickets with 25% off on late-summer cruises. Disney's long-term goal: luring the 90% of American noncruisers to take the plunge...
...ACHIEVEMENT] Discovers new world, returns to a majestic royal welcome...
Should Parker Bowles ever gain the acceptance her friends wish for her, it is still unlikely that she and Charles would wed. The couple, according to royal watchers, has accepted the fact that marriage is not an option. Charles hasn't intimated that he would forfeit the throne to make Camilla his wife. The most they can hope for is a comfortable live-in relationship...
...that reason alone it makes sense that Parker Bowles should involve herself in the lives of the young princes. Says Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage: "The situation has been ridiculous. Camilla and her ex-husband are courtiers and socially part of the royal circles whose paths cross all the time. The princes must be the only children in the whole royal group who don't see her." Now, it seems, they'll have countless chances...