The royals - Kitty Kelley [278]
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The prettiest picture ever taken of Queen Elizabeth II: no corgis, no purses, no scowls.
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American royalty meets British royalty in 1961 when Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh greet President John F. Kennedy and his First Lady, Jacqueline, at Buckingham Palace.
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Princess Alexandra, a married cousin of the Queen’s, is a close friend of Prince Philip’s.
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The late film star Merle Oberon, another close friend, was Philip’s favorite Hollywood hostess.
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Helene Cordet, also a close friend, was the first woman publicly rumored to be a mistress of Philip’s.
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The blond, blue-eyed prince who married Elizabeth and became the Duke of Edinburgh dazzled women.
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An extract from one of several letters the author received during the research of this book, offering to sell purported love letters written by Philip to other women on Balmoral, Sandringham, or Britannia stationery.
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The royal family at Windsor in October 1972, celebrating the Queen’s silver anniversary. Back row, standing left to right: The Earl of Snowdon; the Duke of Kent; Prince Michael of Kent; the Duke of Edinburgh; the Earl of St. Andrews (elder son of the Duke of Kent); Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales; Prince Andrew; the Honorable Angus Ogilvy and his son, James Ogilvy. Seated on chairs, left to right: Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon; the Duchess of Kent (holding Lord Nicholas Windsor, her younger son); Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; Queen Elizabeth II; Princess Anne; Marina Ogilvy and her mother, Princess Alexandra. Seated on floor, left to right: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (children of Princess Margaret); Prince Edward; Lady Helen Windsor (daughter of the Duke of Kent). Photograph by Patrick Lichfield.
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The royal family’s love of blood sports: The Queen (center, holding her camera) and her shooting party at Sawai Madhopur, with the eight-foot-nine-inch tiger shot by Prince Philip (far left), who is president of the World Wildlife Fund.
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Behind her back, the Queen Mother was called “Cookie” by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor because of her fondness for sweets. She, in turn, referred to the Duchess of Windsor as “that woman” and prevented her from having the status of Her Royal Highness. Their feud lasted a lifetime.
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The Duchess of Windsor looking out the window of Buckingham Palace after her husband’s funeral in 1972.
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Charles and Lord Mountbatten, or “Uncle Dickie,” as he was called by the royal family. He advised the young Prince to become “a moving target for women.” He wrote: “I believe in a case like yours, the man should sow his wild oats and have as many affairs as he can before settling down….”
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Charles fell in love with Camilla Shand, but she married Andrew Parker Bowles.
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Charles with the Earl Spencer’s twenty-two-year-old daughter Sarah, in 1977, at Cowdray, Sussex, where he was playing polo.
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Charles followed Mountbatten’s advice to “choose a suitable, attractive, and sweet-charactered girl before she [meets] anyone else she might fall for.” He became engaged to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. Photograph by Snowdon.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales after their wedding at St. Paul’s Cathedral on July 29, 1981.
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Diana’s father, the Earl Spencer, with his second wife, Raine, in front of Althorp, the family estate.
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Dame Barbara Cartland, the romance novelist, who is Raine Spencer’s mother. “Her false eyelashes look like two crows flying into the White