Word: royals
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...said he favors. She is also British, another preferred attribute and one that will make her the first citizen to marry the heir to the throne since 1659.* Like the Prince, she is an athlete: an avid bicyclist, swimmer and skier, although she does not share the royal family's passion for horses. Says she: "I fell off a horse and lost my nerve...
...winner of the royal sweepstakes has several distinct advantages over some of the also-rans. Unlike several of Charles' flames, she held up extremely well under the daunting barrage of publicity accorded a royal romance. While one former contender, Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg, is Catholic, Lady Diana is an Anglican and thus presents no legal obstacle to marriage with the man who, as King, will head the Church of England. Unlike another of the Prince's dates, the lovely Davina Sheffield, she is also what Fleet Street calls "a girl without a past." This is a matter...
...Groener uses few props, and almost none authentic to the 1600s. Although he creates interesting contrasts in the position of players by using several sets of stairs and split levels, he overuses pastels. The set, too, resembles a kitschy misconception of the period, perhaps intended to caricature. A little royal blue and some Fleur-de-lis, as well as some real lace, would go a long way here...
After Bryan Organ's portrait of Princess Margaret was unveiled in 1970, the artist "awoke to the most horrific morning of my life." One critic insisted that Organ, 45, "must have had a migraine" while painting it; others were even less kind. The Royal Family evidently did not concur, for they agreed to have Organ do the first official portrait of Prince Charles, 32. The completed work was hung in the National Portrait Gallery earlier this month, and reaction was tepid. Said one critic: "No one could possibly enthuse about it." What did enthuse just about everyone, however...
...would put Ian up with Olivier and Gielgud in his intelligence and skill," says the National Theater's Peter Hall, who directed Amadeus. "He's an original," says Trevor Nunn of the Royal Shakespeare Company. "He has a strong and complex intelligence, and he can't really be compared with anybody." Although he has the stature and the command of theatrical grandeur associated with the Olivier generation, McKellen also has something more contemporary, more recognizably his own. It is a sort of granite center, a moral core that harks back to his Cambridge teacher, the great critic...