Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JUST MAYBE, THERE IS A CEASE-FIRE IN THE GLOBAL air wars. As a first step toward easing transatlantic tensions, the U.S. Department of Transportation has tentatively approved the proposed merger of Northwest and KLM Royal Dutch airlines. The endorsement comes as Washington and European countries spar over "open skies" agreements. Britain, for instance, is pressing the U.S. to okay a proposed alliance between British Airways and USAir. The Americans are also squabbling with France and Germany over airport landing rights. U.S. airlines have generally opposed making any concessions unless European countries reciprocate by opening their markets to American carriers...
...less likely to demand attention by resorting to self-destructive behavior. But the tabloid press, always searching for subtext, heard the princess's remarks as a personal statement about her childhood, scarred by her parents' broken marriage, and her own marriage, marred by the rigid, distinctly unhuggy codes of royal behavior...
...events of this past year. Britain's House of Windsor is under fire in 1992 as + it has not been since 1936, the year Edward VIII abdicated the throne. The notion of the family monarchy, a Victorian-era invention that accorded a symbolic and public role to royal offspring and consorts as well as to the crown, is on the brink of collapse. None of the four children of Queen Elizabeth II has been able to sustain a stable marriage. Princess Anne has divorced and may remarry, Prince Andrew is separated from his cavorting Duchess, and Prince Edward...
...topless with a boyfriend in front of her two children. Then Diana went public with her marriage troubles, allowing her brother and close friends to talk to Andrew Morton, whose best-selling book, Diana: Her True Story, detailed her depression, bulimia, suicide attempts and estrangement from her prince. By royal standards of conduct, in which silence is not only golden but iron too, that was bad enough. Then a tape surfaced purporting to be a conversation between her and a too-close friend, James Gilbey, usually described as a man-about-town, and the tabloids began howling...
...time it appeared that royal scruple still counted for something. While the women made the scandals, their husbands steadfastly said absolutely nothing. But the cellular phone, easy to pick up by ham operators, should be withdrawn from all in court circles. Two weeks ago, the newspapers got hold of a second tape, this time allegedly of an intimate chat between a lonely Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, a married woman with whom he has been linked since well before his marriage to Diana. Thus began Camillagate. John Casey of the Evening Standard wrote last week that he had learned...