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...storm of headlines stole the thunder from the campaign for Britain's April 9 general election. That the split also upstaged news about the nation's deepest slump since World War II demonstrated one value of the House of Windsor today: as a distraction. At a time of anguish over Britain's national direction, a Hollywood-style cult of celebrity surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's offspring has endowed the royal clan with a more modern relevancy. The Queen's second son and his wayward wife provided everything in the way of gossip-page dramatics that their 1986 wedding seemed...
...Central London with a broad smile and a wave at the crowd of bystanders. It was in stark contrast to the glum visage the Royal Navy lieutenant commander and helicopter pilot displayed a day earlier as he drove between Sunninghill Park, his and Fergie's controversial modern mansion near Windsor Palace, and the Army Staff College at Camberley, 25 miles southwest of London...
During the 1936 constitutional crisis over the engagement of King Edward VIII -- later the Duke of Windsor -- and American divorce Wallis Warfield, Winston Churchill growled, "Why shouldn't the King be allowed to marry his cutie?" Playwright Noel Coward shot back, "Because England doesn't wish for a Queen Cutie." Today many Britons want a taste of soap opera in their royalty. Sarah Ferguson, Duchess Cutie, proved very suitable -- if only temporarily -- for that...
...Wife of Windsor...
Last week, 35 immigrants and other tenants from rent-controlled buildings at market and Windsor Streets staged a rally at City Hall over recent increases in their rent. Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 granted the protesters an investigation into the increases...