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...Queen is unhappy with her Prime Minister, it may be because she wears more than one crown. She is also head of the Commonwealth, a club of former British colonies, which some believe Thatcher is goading toward a full- scale crisis. The member nations' scorn of Thatcher's "negotiations, not sanctions" policy only deepened last week after an uninspiring meeting between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and South African State President P.W. Botha...
...rest having dropped out to press their demands for sanctions. Thatcher can expect no relief when she meets in London next week with the leaders of six other Commonwealth nations. The summiteers will also dine at Buckingham Palace, where all ears will be cocked to hear what the Queen has to say. Although she never airs her political opinions publicly, it is her royal prerogative, and indeed her constitutional duty, to consult with her Prime Ministers...
...balcony above. "Give us a kiss!" calls out the crowd, and the playful pair cup hands to ears as if they do not follow. Then, obligingly, they kiss. That morning the toothy young lieutenant and the bonny red-headed publishing assistant awakened as Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, and Sarah Margaret Ferguson. That night the two 26-year-olds went to sleep as husband and wife and, thanks to a wedding-gift title from Her Majesty, Duke and Duchess of York. Five years ago, when Prince Charles took Lady Diana Spencer for his wife, the occasion...
...country as its national theater and itself as its subject. Horseplay was on show as much as horsemanship, and high spirits sometimes got the better of high style. Here was the first great spectacle graced with the trendified traditionalism of the second generation, the young royals. Even the Queen forsook her trademark bucket-size handbag for a small clutch that could have been borrowed from Daughter-in-Law Di. The royals know how to follow trends, it seems, as well as how to set them...
...some 250,000 well-wishers waved their greetings, a parade of five carriages traveled to the abbey. Inside were familiar veterans of the traveling company: Prince Edward, his brother's "supporter" (best man, in common parlance), and the Queen Mother, Prince Philip, Princess Anne and little Prince William. After the country's first family took its place on the high altar, across from "Fergie's" glamorous mother Susan and her second husband, the Argentine polo ace Hector Barrantes, the final carriage in the procession, the gold-black-and-burgundy Glass Coach, pulled up outside. As trumpets sounded and thousands roared...