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That child was born into a rambling, bohemian flat in London's South Kensington neighborhood. At three Andrew began studying the violin; later he took up the piano and horn. "It was extremely noisy around our house," remembers Brother Julian. "I'd be scraping away on the cello, and Andrew would be bashing away on the piano." Adding to the happy din was John Lill, now a well-known British concert pianist, who was a member of the Lloyd Webber household and, more than anyone else, steered Andrew toward concerts and operas...
...Barry Kemp (a writer-producer who has worked on Taxi and Newhart) could not help noticing that Fresno, the world's raisin capital, wound up last in a 1984 ranking of American cities according to quality of life. To be sure, the quality of life for the raisin-growing Kensington family has been drying up for years. The family patriarch was crushed to death 20 years ago in a dehydrator accident. Now his widow Charlotte (Carol Burnett) spends her time sipping Bloody Marys and being chauffeured around in a Chevrolet station wagon while the Rolls is being repaired...
...abuzz with the news that Peregrine Moncreiffe, former head of gilt trading at London's Shearson-Lehman International, had jumped to E.F. Hutton for a salary of about $1.5 million. The newly rich brokerage crowd is helping to push up real estate prices in such flossy London neighborhoods as Kensington and Chelsea, where housing costs have climbed 20% to 30% in the past year...
...mother and father shelled out for the Zhivago wingding, but--fretful parents everywhere, take heart--such a practice has become modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate each of the 24 tables...
Diana has made her presence felt belowstairs as well as above. Among the staff, she is known as "the Boss." Since her arrival at Kensington Palace, some 40 employees, including dozens of Charles' personal staff, have left. Some of these departures were due to natural attrition; others were nudged by the lady of the house. Palace observers suggest that she was intent on - eliminating servants and staff who were any of the following: stuffy, bossy, too familiar or gay. For generations, many of the palace staff have been known as confirmed bachelors, a euphemism for homosexual men. "She just doesn...