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Mass Army-Navy's best-seller is the Royal Stuart boxer, sported at one time by Scotland's royal Stuart family. (The tartan plaid, that is, not the boxers...
...similar, but divorce followed. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York released a joint statement that the breakup does not affect Charles' future position as head of the Church of England. But that church frowns on divorce. As to remarriage, the stricture is so firm that Princess Anne went to Scotland last Saturday to wed Commander Timothy Laurence...
...about why Charles, who often seems obtuse, is so elusive. He places the responsibility largely on gruff Prince Philip, whose military deportment may have terrified the little boy. Philip thought it took a hard education to make a strong prince, and packed the sensitive Charles off to Gordonstoun in Scotland -- a place that was as much marine boot camp as school. He hated it. Of Diana, Rees-Mogg said that "she knows herself to be a remarkable person, and remarkable people usually need to be admired. It is no good asking a star to accept the role of a glowworm...
...prince is often pictured sketching in Scotland or communing with plants at his country house, Highgrove. It is true that he enjoys the pastimes typical of the English upper class: polo, hunting, shooting. But his schedule, much of it off camera, is busy. Last week he also took time to talk at some length with 22 recipients of loans or grants from the Prince's Youth Business Trust, which launches young would-be entrepreneurs, many of them unemployed, in realistic businesses. In this crowd he is perfectly at home, welcoming them by saying that the whole event is blatant advertising...
...HOWEVER, IT HAS, GERmany included. Commenting on the October meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Scotland, Herbert Kremp, foreign-affairs columnist for Die Welt, lamented that "nothing happens in Europe" because Germany, the logical power to pick up the U.S. slack, remains in the eyes of its political elite "a neuter yearning for the bliss of inferiority." Said Kremp: "The international security system has collapsed insofar as it covers Europe. If the U.S. does not lead, no one does," he added...