Word: royals
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...preparing the story, TIME correspondents worked sources on both sides of the Atlantic. In London, James Shepherd surveyed the booming business in royal curios and souvenirs, Arthur White interviewed Elizabeth and David Emanuel, who are designing Diana's wedding gown. Boston Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand researched the American roots of Lady Diana's family, and in Washington, Correspondent Eileen Shields interviewed Journalist and Biographer Anthony Holden. This week's story was edited by Stephen Smith and written by Jay Cocks, who was fascinated by what he calls Lady Diana's "dazzling star quality." Says Cocks...
...Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who was making his first trip abroad since taking office. Weinberger had begun to sound invasion alarms the previous week after receiving intelligence reports of heightened Soviet military activity in and near Poland. During a stop-over in Britain last week, Weinberger told reporters at Cottesmore Royal Air Force Base that Poland was already a victim of "invasion by osmosis," a process he described as the "gradual filtering in of additions to the two [Soviet] divisions that have been in Poland for a long time...
...figures in Menachem Begin's Likud coalition have been as colorful as Ezer Weizman, 56, a onetime British Royal Air Force pilot who served for three years as Begin 's Defense Minister. He noisily resigned last May in a dispute over defense spending and the future of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Last week Israeli readers pored over selected controversial passages from Weizman's soon-to-be-published book, The Battle for Peace, a salty, 395-page memoir of the period straddling the 1978 Camp David accords. Excerpts...
...50th anniversary of Masterpiece Theater, and the third chapter of our series Monarchy in Love. We have already seen the dedicated and rambunctious Prince of Wales-who had not yet become Charles III-in the sunset years of his bachelorhood, struggling to maintain his independence while hewing to a royal role that sometimes interfered with the imperatives of young manhood...
...putty. Hers was an adept, admirable performance on an occasion of mundane princely politesse. Charles had come down to Cheltenham to meet the local constabulary, who keep an eye on the country house, Highgrove, where he and Lady Diana will spend what time they can manage away from the royal routine. "I couldn't have married anyone the British people wouldn't have liked," he said last month. That statement will now want a little contemporary emendation: he couldn't have married anyone the British people would have liked more...