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Windsor family isn't perfect is a headline that goes back so many generations, it has lost its shock value. But after the British tabloid News of the World revealed that PRINCE HARRY, 17, third in line to the throne, had spent last summer boozing it up at a local pub and smoking cannabis both there and on the grounds of Highgrove, his dad's country home 100 miles from London, the media have gnawed on the story like a Labrador retriever with a steak bone. Like so many royal tales before it, Harry's travails offer hacks an irresistible...
...what will he become? The younger siblings in royal families "are almost always neglected," says Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage. "Instead of going to pubs on the holidays, he should be meeting heads of state, learning the ropes. He needs training to take the throne if he's called on, and to earn his own living if he wishes...
Thus far the defending Ivy champion Quakers, who earned just as many first-place votes as Harvard in the Ivy preseason media poll, have looked like a better pick for the Ivy cellar than the Ivy throne...
...first woman named Person of the Year (she would be followed by, among others, Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 and Philippine President Corazon Aquino in 1986). A twice-divorced American socialite, she was, to Britain's King Edward VIII, "the woman I love," for whom he abdicated the throne in a saga that shook the monarchy. Their love was deep, but their long, resplendent exile as Duke and Duchess of Windsor struck some as arid and irrelevant. Still, when the King announced his decision, she was, as TIME wrote, "the most talked-about, written-about, headlined and interest-compelling person...
...shaking up the ossified imperial household, the Harvard graduate almost disappeared from public view. Now the modernizing mantle falls on little Princess Aiko, born Dec. 1. With no male sibling yet, she has set the nation to discussing the unthinkable: allowing a woman to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Surprisingly, more than 86% of Japanese think Empress Aiko sounds just fine...