Word: spencers
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...Debrett's Peerage are no strangers to the pages of TIME. In the past 58 years, regal faces have appeared on 79 covers; Britain's Prince Charles was our subject in 1969 and 1978. For this week's cover story on his betrothed, Lady Diana Spencer, London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo concentrated on the former World's Most Eligible Bachelor. Angelo's first experience as a royalty watcher dates back to 1957, when she covered Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's visit to Canada and Washington. This time she found herself sitting on Prince...
...Last week in our second episode, Separate Stables, we watched Charles, by now a ripe old 32, reach back into his past, and turn the girl-next-door into his Queen-to-be. The announcement of his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer, who was just 19, was greeted with sighs of editorial relief and good will throughout what was still rather wistfully recalled as the British Empire. Wars, assorted political crises and the irresistible flux of world events had buffeted Britain badly. The empire had not existed in fact for over 30 years. But it lingered in memory. The romance...
...bench in Berkeley Square, comforted by a friend, while the repentant press slipped a note onto the seat of her red mini Metro: "We didn't mean this to happen. Our full apologies." "The press made Diana's life difficult," said her father, the eighth Earl Spencer, "but she behaved very well. It has proved to be a test, though it wasn't meant to be, and she came through with flying colors. I couldn't have done it myself at 19. I would have collapsed...
...added little makeup to the petal-soft skin. But what would really have warmed those Hollywood pros was the instant revelation, as the strobes popped, of star quality. This is something that cannot be instilled, only enhanced. Movie stars were sometimes said to have a royal bearing. Lady Diana Spencer brings star quality back to Buckingham Palace...
Presumably, too, the quiet if not quite unremarkable quality of her early life, the absence of anything but a merely chronological past, brings her even closer to the royal ideal. She is only what she will become. Born to wealth and privilege, Diana Spencer, like the man she will marry, seems to have grown up at some operational distance from life. Not sheltered, exactly. Stashed away, secreted, in the protected closeness of a class and a culture. It is as if she spent every day of her nearly 20 years snug within the emphatic stillness of an English Sunday afternoon...