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Draped in a most unladylike damp cloth, the gray clay figure looked more like Aphrodite rising from the sea than the future Queen of England. But the royal figure of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, will be appropriately demure by the time it joins the waxed likenesses of Prince Charles, 32, her husband-to-be, at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. A plaster mold was made of Sculptor Muriel Pearson's feat of clay, from which a wax figure is being shaped; later it will be colored and dressed. The Di will be cast shortly before...
...fathers came to this Western area to establish a base from which to carry the gospel of peace," declared Church President Spencer Kimball and his two counselors last week. "It is ironic, and a denial of the very essence of that gospel, that in this same general area there should be constructed a mammoth weapons system potentially capable of destroying much of civilization." Utah's Governor Scott Matheson, also a foe of the MX roadway plan, the Air Force's favorite among 35 safeguarding options, called the Mormons' opposition to the deployment of the missile "an exceptional...
...visited American shores in October 1977, he was still very much a bonnie bachelor, and his beguiling ways charmed every lass in sight. But during his four-day visit to Washington last week, the Prince kept the flirting to a fribble. He is, after all, to marry Lady Diana Spencer, 19, this summer. Charles toured the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, took a trip to Williamsburg, Va., where he received an honorary degree from the College of William and Mary, and attended a small dinner party at the White House. During an Oval Office chat with President...
...statesmen. George Washington is an eighth cousin seven times removed, and through the wife of an eccentric American great-great-grandfather, Diana is related to Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sir Winston Churchill (middle name: Spencer) is a cousin, as is former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Scholarly limbs include Historian Henry Adams, Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Lexicographer Noah Webster. Theatrical boughs: Humphrey Bogart and Lillian Gish...
...marry Europeans. Fortunately for Prince Charles, Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, the elder of Fanny's twin sons, defied his grandfather and returned to Britain to claim the Fermoy title. His marriage, to Scotswoman Ruth Sylvia Gill, produced Frances Ruth Burke Roche. And her marriage to Edward John Spencer, which ended in divorce in 1969, produced Lady Diana Spencer, the United Kingdom's one-eighth American future queen...