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...Maris Cole, a primary-school teacher from Great Somerford and her husband Hector, 41, who teaches iron working at a local secondary school. The Coles were chosen to craft the 20-ft.-long handwrought iron gates that will stretch across the entrance to Highgrove, the 18th century Georgian mansion of mellow brick near Tetbury, where Charles and Diana will set up housekeeping. Maris-"the artist in the family," according to Hector-sketched the classic design, which is to be executed by her husband. "We toiled for many hours in our study," Maris admits. "Our biggest problem was trying to decide...
...Television built up to the big event with all the suspense of a moon shot. From fond accounts of Anne's girlhood visit to a monkey farm in Malta to interviews with the sexton who would ring the church bell in Mark's home town of Great Somerford, no detail seemed too trivial to mention...
About 1,500 people have been in vited to the wedding, including Mark's saddle maker and the village blacksmith from the Phillipses' family home near Great Somerford, Wiltshire. Of Europe's surviving monarchs, only Monaco's Prince Rainier will be present. Television cameras, though, will provide live coverage for a potential audience of 500 million around the world...
...family is what the British refer to as "county"-people of comfortable means who have homes and stables in the counties and hold high business or professional positions, if they work at all. The Phillipses have a handsome 16th century house of Cotswold stone and primrose hue in Great Somerford, Wiltshire, about 80 miles west of London. Mark's grandfather was an equerry to King George VI. His father, Peter Phillips, is a director of T. Wall & Sons, a large produce firm that specializes in pork sausages and ice cream (and which, incidentally, is an official purveyor...
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