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...royal family dislikes security precautions so much and is so well regarded that measures for its safekeeping have become too lax. Ronald Reagan, by contrast, is so well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside audience, a bystander fired six blank pistol shots in her direction as she was riding down London's Mall to the Trooping of the Color. As Alice might have...
...business to discuss. Thrown together on a tightly scheduled visit to Europe, they got into explosive quarrels over the pettiest matters. For example, Haig is said to have regarded it as an affront that the helicopter carrying him and his wife Patricia from Heathrow Airport outside London to Windsor Castle was far behind the Reagans' chopper. According to White House aides, he upbraided Clark and Baker on the lawn at Windsor Castle, while Queen Elizabeth II was welcoming Reagan. "He went crazy," recalls one presidential assistant. Haig further annoyed Clark and Baker by theatening to abandon the trip...
...real-life heir, a script has been conceived and delivered, and filming has begun, on Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, a two-hour movie to be aired by CBS later this year. Since most of the authentic locales for the tale (places like Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle) are currently occupied and unavailable for film production, the movie is being shot in the mansions of Long Island, Connecticut and upstate New York. Prince Charles is portrayed by Christopher Baines, a British stage actor, and Diana is played by Model Catherine Oxenberg, 20. Though Romance marks Oxenberg's acting...
...Tuesday morning, Reagan took a highly publicized horseback ride with Queen Elizabeth through Windsor Home Park. Reagan's chestnut gelding, Centennial, donated to the royal stables by the Canadian Mounties, was certainly no match for the spirited steeds the President rides in the U.S. With stiff upper lip, a palace aide described the horse as "reasonable." Reagan paused to exchange inane but affable banter with reporters. Queen Elizabeth, wearing a yellow scarf, listened for a while, looking distinctly displeased, then began to ride off. A moment later, Reagan followed. British and American accounts of the royal family...
...have to take back by force what the Argentines would not give up." Even Britain's monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, whose second son, Prince Andrew, is a helicopter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Invincible, made a rare and direct comment on the issue. Using the banquet at Windsor Castle for President Ronald Reagan as the occasion, she personally denounced "naked aggression" in the Falklands. In the port of Southampton, meanwhile, cheering Britons gave a rapturous welcome to her namesake, the Cunard luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2, returning safely from the Falklands with 629 injured and wounded, plus crewmen from...