Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit, I am appalled at the dangers young people face on the streets and how vulnerable they are to exploitation." For that she was attacked by the Conservatives, eager to keep their hold on Parliament. Said Tory M.P. John Marshall: "It is quite wrong that a member of the royal family--however semidetached--should appear to lend credence to the view of one political party or another. It seems she wants all the benefits of being a member of the royal family without exercising the discretion that goes with...
...when the shy kindergarten teacher linked to Prince Charles stepped gingerly into the spotlight in a diaphanous skirt. Since we began tracking her unique style and popularity in an April 20, 1981 cover story, TIME has put Diana on its cover eight times, more than any other royal--including Queen Elizabeth, who was Woman of the Year...
...marked her as both impossibly glamorous and a kind of universal Every Woman. TIME wrote in its walkup to the nuptials: "This wedding on the cusp of high noon, in front of a world short on ritual and parched for romance, is in fact one grand pass of the royal wand [in which] the future is assured and everyone can be queen...
That moment of innocent optimism and, yes, magic quickly faded. In a 1983 cover about royalty and the press that now seems sadly prescient, TIME raised alarms about the relationship between Diana and the paparazzi. Of the royal watchers who pursue their prey in high-speed chases, TIME noted: "There has been so much of this mad motoring that the wonder is that no member of the royal family or the public has been killed...
...life still appeared sunny when TIME chronicled her whirlwind tour of America with Charles in 1985. But shadows had fallen by 1992, when we reported on troubles in the royal family and the royal marriage. Four years later we wrote about her final rupture with Charles and her emergence as a very modern mother and an international figure of mercy...