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...Behind her followed her only attendants: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 9, daughter of Princess Margaret, and Anne's brother Prince Edward, also 9. She promised "to love, cherish and to obey." The groom slipped onto her finger a wedding band that had been made from a nugget of Welsh gold from which had come wedding rings for the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret...
...chosen her tombstone-cream-colored Welsh marble-to match the duke's. She has even settled on the inscription: "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor." One day her stone will be placed alongside his under a wide-spreading plane tree on the lawn at Frogmore in Windsor Park, where the bodies of Victoria and Albert also lie. In life, the royal family would not receive Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson. One day she will be among them forever...
...round-the-world cruise. Eighteen months later and 200 miles west of the Galápagos Islands, his yacht was hit by killer whales and sank in one minute. Robertson, his wife Lyn, their three sons, Douglas, 18, and the twins Neil and Sandy, 12, and a Welsh student guest, Robin Williams, 22, were adrift on the Pacific...
...RALPH S. WELSH...
Half the physics prize is to be divided between Japanese-born Leo Esaki, 48, of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York and Norwegian-born Ivar Giaever, 44, of G.E.'s Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. The other half goes to Welsh-born Brian D. Josephson, 33, of Cambridge University. In a series of brilliant experiments and calculations, the three scientists explored different aspects of a phenomenon that has become increasingly significant in modern electronics: electron "tunneling," the passage of electrons through insulating material that, according to classical physics, they should...