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...discord. Diana, far from coming across as the Princess Peabrain that some have called her, was confident and rarely tongue-tied; with that ever so sly, slightly lidded look of hers, she imparted the gentlest hint of irony to the proceedings. The coaching that she received from Gandhi Director Sir Richard Attenborough paid off. Charles even provided a touch of Piccadilly farce by draping a handkerchief over his head to distract Sons William, 3, and Henry, 1, and then mugging like an attenuated version of his great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. The children were amused...
...life, Diana has the added % difficulty of getting used to living in the crystal palace of royal life. In addition to the loss of privacy, the duties--opening factories, pressing thousands of hands, walking about dreary industrial towns--can be as tedious as they are arduous. The ITV interviewer, Sir Alastair Burnet, asked Diana whether she had anticipated that she would not even be able to walk down a street without kicking up a fuss. Her forthright answer: "No. I didn...
...role as guiding the prince toward kingship. The reasons for his leaving are unclear. Some say that Adeane was annoyed by the incessant foofaraw made over Diana, while Diana felt that Adeane was too straitlaced. The post was empty for six months. In September it was announced that Sir John Riddell, director of the bank Credit Suisse First Boston, would fill...
Arafat suffered a different blow to his credibility on Monday in London. There, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the cancellation of a planned meeting between himself and a joint Jordanian-P.L.O. delegation, the first such meeting ever scheduled between P.L.O. representatives and a member of the British government. If the meeting had taken place as planned, it would have given a new measure of authority to the P.L.O. as the legitimate voice for Palestinian interests in the Middle East. Even though Arafat was not one of the P.L.O. representatives invited to attend, the gathering, if successful, would...
...told reporters. "The President said, in essence, I don't care what it takes, I want that plane brought down in friendly territory." Pentagon officials said last week that Weinberger was playing the role of devil's advocate and when Reagan gave the go-ahead, he readily responded, "Yes, sir...