Word: royals
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...this was his drawing. The existing corpus of Leonardo's drawings and notes is no more than a fragment of his life's work, now mutilated and dispersed; still, it runs to thousands of pages, some 600 of which are in the collection of the English royal family at Windsor Castle. In aesthetic terms the Windsor drawings are of incomparable interest, not least because they include so many of Leonardo's most developed studies of inanimate nature-plants, landscapes, the effects of weather and light. A group of 50 of these nature studies (including his "deluge" drawings...
...blond, blue-eyed, 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer made her first formal appearance last week as the fiancée of the Prince of Wales, she left the island gasping. Attending a benefit recital at the Goldsmiths' Hall -close to St. Paul's Cathedral, where the royal couple will be married July 29-the Queen-to-be stepped out in a strapless, black silk-taffeta evening gown that radiated a wolf-whistle glamour not associated with Britain's ruling ladies for generations. (But certainly in the tradition of England's first Princess of Wales...
...front page and three more inside. The Daily Express said flatly that "a crowd of 200 gasped" as Lady Di stepped out of her limo. Even the Times of London permitted itself a slight whimsicality. When Prince Charles ascends the throne, mused Columnist Alan Hamilton, "the royal couple will be known as the King and Di." Writer Jean Rook of the Daily Express complimented Diana "for putting on a bold, beautiful front, and for turning her cold, bare shoulders on the traditional, covered-up royal evening dress." Added Rook: "Her Gone With the Wind dress is high, young fashion...
...evening clothes,' has grown as jet-set and upper-class balls have become more nostalgically lavish in times of general gloom." British commentators noted happily that Di seems determined to project a style that is in keeping with her own personality rather than that of a waxwork royal at Madame Tussaud...
...royal look will doubtless set a standard for British models in TV commercials and other ads. Already the Daily Mirror has launched a nationwide Lady Di look-alike contest (first entrant: Lyn Hooper, 22, a policeman's wife in Leeds, Yorkshire...