Word: royals
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Lady Diana's family, while not royal, is not exactly working class either. The Spencers, who are related to the Churchills, have served the Crown as courtiers for generations and, in turn, been befriended by the royals. Diana's brother, Charles, 16, is Queen Elizabeth's godson. Her father, the very wealthy eighth Earl Spencer, is the late Queen Mary's godson, as well as former personal aide to both King George VI and the present Queen. Her maternal grandmother, Lady Fermoy, is a lady in waiting to the Queen Mother. Said a consultant to Burke...
...bride virtually all her life, or that she was literally the girl next door, at least for part of each year. Though the Spencers spend most of their time at Althorp, their magnificent 500-year-old home in Northamptonshire, for years they rented a large country home on the royal family's 20,000-acre Sandringham estate. It was there that Charles met Diana as a little girl. He regarded her, naturally, as the playmate of his younger brother Andrew, 21, and later chose to date one of the two older Spencer girls, Lady Sarah, 25. Sarah, in fact...
...snapped holding one of her charges at the nursery school where she taught, the sun at her back clearly outlining her legs and thighs through a diaphanous skirt. That caused a sensation, but it was only the beginning. Fleet Street's overheated tabloids, used to concocting royal "romances" on the scantiest of evidence-a day at the races with Lady Camilla Fane, a chat at the polo grounds with Secretary Jane Ward-regularly made up quotes and printed rumors. Diana was ambushed by paparazzi while riding in her car and reduced to tears. Finally, a story in the Sunday...
...flash of cameras, the growls of newshounds, the whisper of rumors are very much a part of royal life. Lady Diana's "baptism by fire, with the press as high priest," editorialized the Yorkshire Post, "was almost a planned test." And, the paper added, she "has shown herself fit to be a Queen...
...good health), although he will then have the right to see official papers. Diana will, of course, share in the privileges as well as the pains of the monarchy, an institution that only 10% of polled Brit ons wish to see abolished. Among the royal benefits: Highgrove, the 347-acre Gloucestershire country estate Charles purchased for about $2 million last August, his estimated $400,000 annual in come, and such quaint perquisites as first claim to any whale that washes up on the Cornish beaches...