Word: royalities
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Wills will have plenty to say about what university he attends and what he does after that. Meanwhile, he might consider his father's royal duties. They are numbing. Charles shuttles from conference to opening, from funeral to investiture, from fund raiser to military parade. Wills' life will be one of wealth and privilege, but he will pay for it in an exacting round of obligations in which any spontaneous word or gesture will probably land him in trouble. Novelist Allan Massie, who is also a royals observer, points out that as Prince of Wales, William will have maximum opportunity...
Society may change even faster in the next 25 years than it has in the last. Wills will preside over a much reduced list of who is "royal." And he will have to make the institution credible to the country while at the same time not stint on the elaborate ceremonies that give the crown most of its luster. One step in the right direction is that Wills is a fan of soccer, a game his countrymen are fanatic about but which most royals, who seem to associate athletic endeavor with horses, ignore...
Just one of the problems he will probably face is raised by Yale's British historian Linda Colley: "Whom will he find to marry him?" She notes that over the past hundred years, the monarchy has recruited women like Queen Mary, George V's consort, who epitomized royal womanhood's acquiescence and sense of duty, and the present Queen Mother, who has been just as responsible and effervescent as well. Diana was very young and inexperienced, sexually and otherwise. Where, Colley asks, are such young women to be found in this age of independence, blossoming careers and cohabitation...
...Princess of Wales, as the mother of Prince William, will be regarded by the Queen and the Prince of Wales as being a member of the Royal family." So read the statement released by Buckingham Palace last week announcing that the Waleses had reached a divorce settlement. This acknowledgement must have come hard. Diana lost the designation Her Royal Highness, but the palace could not dismiss her completely, despite Charles' bitter acrimony toward her (London papers reported that the Queen was willing to let Diana keep her H.R.H., but Charles insisted that she relinquish it). The recognition that she remains...
...attendance. If Diana wishes to be part of the family, she can gradually reingratiate herself. Lord Snowdon, the photographer and Princess Margaret's former husband, has reappeared on the court scene and can be found at receptions and other occasions, not to mention behind the camera at royal photo shoots...