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While in the Resistance movement (his alias was "Morland"), Mitterrand spotted a picture of a girl in an apartment used for exchanging messages. Mitterrand asked a few questions about her and then said, "I will marry her." That year he wed Danielle Gouze after, legend has it, introducing her to his parents with a staccato biography: "Danielle, nonreligious, democrat, socialist." Now a human rights activist in the party, she wrote a letter last month to Maureen Reagan asking her to use her influence to change her father's position on El Salvador...
...contretemps that seems, in retrospect, almost comic. At the time though, his quest was no laughing matter. Anthony Holden, one of his biographers, recalls that Charles became 'obsessed with the subject of marriage' and often noted, with a touch of sadness, that most of his friends were wed. We saw the feelings of his parents, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, turn from indulgence to impatience until, one long weekend when the Prince was away and unreachable, the Queen gave vent to the slightly petulant and now famous question that lent the episode its title...
...publicly commended her wifely virtues, having sampled them, he said, while the two lived together. Diana's pristine past is also a matter of importance to the royal family in view of the romantic history of the last Prince of Wales, who abdicated his throne in 1936 to wed Wallis Simpson, a woman who had previously been married and divorced...
...captured every drop of Moliere's satirical venom, and the spring of his theatrical tension is wound tightly. As the play opens, Marianne prepares to marry her beloved Valere. Plans are thrown out of kilter by Tartuffe, a hypocrite whom Marianne's father, Orgon, has decided that Marianne should wed Tartuffe instead of Valere. By this time, everyone else in the household has become sick from Tartuffe's hypocritical moralizing and pretended disapproval of even the innocent pleasures of dancing and receiving company. They plan to unmask Tartuffe's real nature to Orgon and arrange for him to view secretly...
...completed work was hung in the National Portrait Gallery earlier this month, and reaction was tepid. Said one critic: "No one could possibly enthuse about it." What did enthuse just about everyone, however, was the latest chapter in another royal matter-whether Charlie will finally settle down and wed the fair Lady Diana Spencer, 19. Last week's installment was a Daily Mirror centerfold that reported a Milquetoast proposal from Charles: "If I were to ask you, do you think it would be possible?" and a decidedly less ambiguous ultimatum from the Queen: "Marry her by this summer...