Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impression was that they had scarcely spent very much time together," remarks Anthony Holden, whose biography of the couple, Their Royal Highnesses: The Prince and Princess of Wales, was published in England last month. "They hadn't spent as much time as any of us might have done with the person we were going to marry." Off on a five-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, Venezuela and the U.S., the Prince saw his Lady's face on newsstands and TV screens all around him and spoke to her frequently by phone. "It was the ultimate case...
...early evening of the wedding day, London's D.H. Evans should have a copy of the bridal gown in its Oxford Street window. The knock-off is the work of Ellis Bridals, which turns out copies "whenever there is a royal wedding," according to Brenda Ellis, 33, granddaughter of the firm's founders. "We simply reproduce the dress so the public can have it. It's the same thing...
...making use of new technology: a video-tape machine with a pause button. "When we get a good picture of Lady Di," Ellis says, "we can freeze it." Elk's reports that 200 of the copies have been ordered so far. "Every shop in England that has a royal window wants...
...Prince has picked up a little pizazz by association with Lady Diana, she has assumed the beginnings of a royal aspect. Even though she chose to have "obey" deleted from the marriage service, she has not yet dealt successfully with the problem of monarchical chapeaux. Women of the royal family are all encouraged and expected to wear hats for formal occasions. Lady Diana's early efforts to comply with this code have resulted in a couple of wowzers, including one that looked as if the mother ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind had made a forced landing...
...realm of gifts, indeed, where the royal wedding began to look less like a wide-screen spectacular and more like the world's most deluxe television quiz show. Without undue straining, the voice of a master of ceremonies comes filtering through the imagination, asking the traditional question-"Johnny, tell us what's in the jackpot for this wonderful couple"-and getting, from an agitated announcer who sounds like a tobacco auctioneer just graduated from broadcast school, a far from conventional reply...