Word: scotland
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...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 her in 1988 for another woman...
...groundwork for Diana's death may actually have been laid years ago, when she decided to give up the around-the-clock British security she had enjoyed as a royal princess, a move opposed by Scotland Yard. After separating from Prince Charles, Diana was eager to regain some semblance of a normal life. Though she used official bodyguards at public events or when she was with her sons, she preferred to move around on her own. On the night of her death, Diana was entirely in the safekeeping of the Fayeds. She was not represented by anyone...
...would have culminated three decades of exhaustive and expensive attempts by the sixtyish Mohammed al Fayed to prove his British bona fides by collecting some of the nation's trophies. In addition to Harrods, he owns the famed humor magazine Punch, the Fulham Football Club and Balnagow castle in Scotland; his millions have sponsored the annual Royal Windsor Horse Show, where he has shared the royal box with the Queen. Al Fayed's younger brother Ali owns Turnbull & Asser, the prestigious tailor used by Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry. And al Fayed has long courted Diana...
...heads as a number of familiar characters started playing against type. Prince Charles turned out to be a good guy after all, and AOL's Steve Case made nice with CompuServe employees. The world's largest Communist country came out in favor of privatization, while the underdog nation of Scotland voted to give itself a Parliament ? and at the behest of an English Prime Minister, too. There was a refreshing whiff of honesty in the air: Steven Biko's killers admitted their crime, and Pentagon Top Brass said Army sex scandals were a product of poor leadership. Even the doctor...
EDINBURGH, Scotland: From Glasgow to Edinburgh, from the islands to the highlands, the lads and lasses have spoken: Scotland will have a parliament. With a resounding 74.2 percent voting in favor, Scotland will get a legislature of its own in 2000, and with 63.4 percent in favor, that parliament will have the power to tax its new constituents. But though Thursday's referendum was timed to the 700-year anniversary of a William Wallace rout of the British, TIME's London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand says the landmark shift is a lot closer to states' rights than revolution. "Years from...