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...spades-people. For 18 months Thomas pondered the problem, buying three copies of Masquerade and throwing two away when his wife complained of puzzle-neglect. He made a breakthrough by linking the inscription under one picture, "One of Six to Eight," to Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Thomas also divined another key clue: a pictorial reference to the vernal equinox indicating an object whose shadow on that day, March 21, would point to the buried treasure...
...press who would not directly attack you-know-who and Prince Philip, Margaret and her husband provided vicarious prey as "the two highest paid performing dwarves in Europe." Recently she has offered comforting proof of what every commoner suspects: royalty, in the words of Margaret's uncle, Edward VIII, is "duty without responsibility, pomp without power"-in brief, a gilded misery. With such a history of service, Princess Margaret remains, at 51, one of the European Community's best bargains. Pity the same cannot be said for her biography. -By Stefan Kanfer
...cried. My father found it difficult to swallow at dinner. Our dog--sensing our grief--didn't even circle the table waiting for an opportunity to filch our suppers. We all resolved that the Redskins would "have a date at Super Bowl VIII." Alas, it was never...
...your article about the Church of England's new divorce policy [July 20], you mentioned the marital career of Henry VIII and footnoted the fates of his six wives. To keep their stories straight, we Americans might try remembering a simple rhyme taught to British schoolchildren...
...strictness bemuses those who recall that the Church of England was created because Henry VIII, against papal orders, wanted to shed Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, and marry Anne Boleyn. As it happened, the much married monarch did not actually divorce Catherine, but engineered an annulment. Nor did he divorce Anne or any of his succeeding four wives.* The ancient Anglican church tradition forced King Edward VIII to abdicate in 1936 so that he might marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, the twice-divorced "woman I love," and led Princess Margaret to reject the divorced Peter Townsend in 1955. Margaret...