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...hold right away with the couturiers of New Bond Street. But Britain's intrepid Diana, 24, was fetching nonetheless in a bright orange survival suit and hard hat as she spent three hours last week inspecting Forties Charlie Platform, a giant offshore oil rig located 110 miles off Aberdeen, Scotland, in the frigid and fogbound waters of the North Sea. Seems that Husband Charles visited a British Petroleum rig earlier this year, and the oil company heard through the royal grapevine that Di was disappointed not to have been included. A BP helicopter was dispatched to Balmoral Castle, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 16, 1985 | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...NSPCC (the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)." Suspicious of the ad, the Times checked and found that no such deaths had been reported in Penzance and that Princess Margaret of Hesse, 72, who happened to be visiting Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral, was actually childless. Scotland Yard traced the ad to Rita Coleman, a local magistrate, who said a mysterious "Countess Maggie," whom she had never met, had contacted her at a charity she worked with and asked her to place the death notice of her three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Spies, Spies and More Spies | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

British officials investigating the obituary now believe it may have been a coded message to East German spies operating in Britain to go for deep cover. The day before the item appeared, Scotland Yard arrested two East Germans, Reinhard Schulze, 32, an interior designer, and his wife Sonja, 35, a translator, and charged them with various offenses under Britain's Official Secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Spies, Spies and More Spies | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Donald Weir (bag pipes) -- From Edinburgh, Scotland, he has been in this country for only two weeks. His schedule is loose, but Weir says plans to play regularly until Aug. 24. His show is somewhat of a novelty and is not to be missed...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Popping Strings For Profit | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...English-village mysteries of the kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual pubs, most of them in the English countryside, and until Help the Poor Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch setup proved charming in her early books but has worn a little thin, as Grimes seems to recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable Help the Poor Struggler | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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