Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story can be enough to test the resourcefulness of any TIME bureau. But in the past four weeks TIME'S London bureau has had to cope with the formidable challenge of covering two simultaneous headline developments: the accelerating preparations for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer and the sudden outbreak of rioting in England's industrial cities. The task required an ability to change mood, location and even clothes at a moment's notice. Within hours, Correspondent James Shepherd shifted from tracking rioters in London neighborhoods to chatting amiably with Prince Charles' tailor...
...plan and in prospect, the marrying of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 32, to Lady Diana Spencer, 20, the well-born and distinctively dishy commoner, is a fairy tale of present pomp and past glory, a last page from the tattered book of empire with the gold leaf still intact. It is by Rudyard Kipling out of Walter Bagehot, a ceremony intended to refurbish and reaffirm tradition...
With this powerful endorsement the ware quickly came to be recognized not only for its practical value, but for its collectibility as well. Lady Diana's father, Earl Spencer, as well as Queen Elizabeth, are among its present day patrons. At Windsor Castle there is an entire room which carries, and honors, the name--The Wedgwood Room. Josiah's words were, at last, prophetic, when he said in his Experiment Book, "I saw the field was spacious, and the soil was good, as to promise an ample recompense to any who should labour diligently in its cultivation...
Still, the children are not solely to blame for this dreary adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel, which made such an interesting case for madness in love, demonstrating that it is preferable-whatever the cost-to safe "meaningful relation ships." Director Zeffirelli seems far too distant from his lovers. He is too concerned with establishing the sweetness and beauty of their affair, not enough with emphasizing what is at its center: an irresistible sexual magnetism that can be so surprising to youngsters that it overwhelms them. Worse, in attempting to suggest the play of memory and inner consciousness, Zeffirelli...
...Church of England approves a new divorce policy if Prince Charles were marrying Lady Diana Spencer in another day, there would be protocol problems aplenty. As late as the 1920s, divorced persons were never received socially by Britain's royal family, and Lady Di's parents are divorced and remarried. The reason for that barrier in social protocol: the British monarch is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which, like the Roman Catholic Church, refuses to recognize divorce or allow a second marriage while the original spouse is still living...