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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...domineering Mohammed al Fayed was, says Dodi's friend,"someone who tells you whom you can hang out with, what you can do and not do." Even if the elder Fayed had ordered his son to squire the princess around, the younger Fayed saw the rebel royal as a way out from under his father's thumb. "Dodi," says his friend, "started finding his legs." And on that Saturday night, it seemed as if an engagement was almost certain, even though, as the French police now say, the fabled Repossi diamond ring was never found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Princess Diana: DRUNK AND DRUGGED | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...needs of his youngest children, Diana, 9, and Charles, 6. He had sent his two older daughters Jane (today the wife of the Queen's private secretary, Sir Robert Fellowes) and Sarah away to boarding school, but he needed someone to watch over the younger children, who were living with him at Park House, a 10-bedroom manse on the grounds of the Queen's Sandringham estate. His daughter Diana was sufficiently lively and social for her age, so he searched specifically for someone who might help his young son come out of his shell. Spencer was worried that Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Princess Diana: HIS SISTER'S KEEPER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

That Spencer, like his famous sister, would find romantic relationships especially unmanageable comes as little surprise given their home lives as children. As the younger siblings, Diana and Charles Spencer bore the brunt of their parents' breakup. In 1967 their mother Frances left the family to be with her lover, wallpaper heir Peter Shand Kydd. The two later married and eventually moved to a farm on the tiny Isle of Seil in western Scotland. Spencer won custody of his daughters and son. (Mrs. Shand Kydd, who recently converted to Catholicism, continues to live there today; her husband left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Princess Diana: HIS SISTER'S KEEPER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...million of them--are crossing the Big Five-O threshold at the rate of about one every eight seconds. That means that by 2020, more than a third of all Americans will be 50 or older. And by 2050, those 65 or older could outnumber kids 14 or younger for the first time in U.S. history. "The aging of the population is changing American society in fundamental ways," observes Richard Suzman, chief demographer for the National Institute on Aging. "It's the equivalent of the waves of immigrants who came to this country, or of the urbanization and industrialization that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGE IS NO BARRIER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...cleaning personnel, and an apparent background in pirating (the earring), which could give him the edge in ruthlessness. What if there were a tag-team bout, with the Giant and Snuggles the fabric-softener bear facing Mr. Clean and the Trix rabbit? Snuggles is smaller, but also presumably younger and just plain mean as hell. The rabbit would be hurt by malnourishment, as he apparently did not eat anything at all during all the years of my childhood...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Dear Campus Commando | 9/18/1997 | See Source »

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