Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of their business success, the couple from the basement flat in Pimlico has won a British export award and been invited for a visit on the royal yacht Britannia. The Ashleys now live much of the year in a 17-bedroom, 18th century chateau in northern France. At a small airfield near by, Bernard keeps a Beechcraft King Air plane, which he uses to fly off to business meetings. And while fashion trends come and go, Laura Ashley in tends to continue selling ruffles and romance. Says she: "What the eye sees is important. High tech is too hard...
...Wood's lawyer, spoke as a grieving friend about the national fascination with her death. In a matter of hours, shock turned to pity and then to conjecture. Exactly why did Natalie Wood die? When a gorgeous movie star full of wine stumbles off a quarter-million-dollar yacht in her nightgown and drowns, while her actor-husband sits oblivious with her film co-star a few yards away, people will talk. And wonder...
...movie, and her role required only three more days of filming. On a weekend hiatus, Wood, Husband Robert Wagner (star of TV's Hart to Hart) and her leading man-sallow and rangy Christopher Walken, 38-headed for the sea. They relaxed aboard the Wagners' 60-ft. yacht Splendour, moored in a cove off Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles from the Los Angeles shore. On Saturday afternoon they motored the 100 yds. to the island in a 10-ft. dinghy. They had drinks and dinner at an island restaurant, and six hours later-after four bottles of wine...
...call was answered instead by Don Whiting, night manager of the restaurant they had left three hours earlier. Whiting launched a search, and at 3:26, the Coast Guard was called in. Soon after dawn, a guardsman spotted Wood's body a mile down current from the yacht and 200 yds. from shore. The empty dinghy, loaded with lifejackets, was not far away, bobbing in the waves...
...alone and breathe the brisk Pacific night. Whiting spent the night after the accident aboard the Splendour and struck upon an alternative theory: maybe Wood, kept awake by the sound of Valiant banging against the hull in the breeze, slipped overboard while trying to move the dinghy to the yacht's leeward side...