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“I like athletic men,” said Fergie, who courted Australian tennis player Thomas Muster.
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Johnny Bryan, whose poolside romp with Fergie and her children in the South of France in 1992 was captured by paparazzi. The photos of a bare-breasted duchess and her toe-sucking financial adviser caused an international scandal.
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As single mothers, Diana and Sarah begin new lives. The Princess of Wales with her two children, Prince Harry and Prince William. The Duchess of York with her two children, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
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Sophie Rhys Jones with HRH Prince Edward, who asks to be called “Mr. Windsor” during the days he works for a living making television documentaries. In the evenings he insists that people address him as His Royal Highness. The Queen gave the couple, who met in 1993, permission to share Edward’s rooms at Buckingham Palace.
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The Queen Mother on her ninety-fourth birthday surrounded by most of the royal family. Back row, left to right: Anne, The Princess Royal; Commander Tim Laurence; Viscount Linley and his wife, Serena; Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne; Sir Angus Ogilvy; Princess Alexandra; Prince Edward; Prince Andrew (head turned away from camera). Front row, left to right: Her Majesty; Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne; Queen Mother; Prince William; Princess Margaret; Prince Charles; Prince Harry.
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THE TROUBLES OF PRINCESS DI (REPRISE)
by Calvin Trillin
Oh Di, we try to keep your troubles high
On any list we make of tragic matters.
Egad, it’s sad the tsoris that you’ve had:
The prince. Your health. A paramour who matters.
And now you vow to stick it out somehow,
So William would be king, and not his pater.
If so, let’s go. If it would end this show,
We’d like to see it sooner, Di, not later.
Calvin Trillin
Prince William, the man who might be King.
Chapter Notes
More than one thousand people contributed to this book over a period of four years. Many who provided information are cited in the text, the bibliography, and the acknowledgments. The following summary, by no means all-inclusive, provides the reader with a general review of other aspects of research involved in constructing the book.
CHAPTER 1
Traditionally, royalty has been held up as the golden standard by which the rest of us should live. An illustrious moment occurs in Leon Uris’s novel Exodus, when the King of Denmark transmits a message to all Danes regarding the Nazi command that Danish Jews must wear a Star of David:
“The King has said that one Dane is exactly the same as the next Dane. He himself will wear the first Star of David, and he expects that every loyal Dane will do the same.”
The next day the residents of Copenhagen stood in the town square wearing armbands with the Star of David. The following day the Germans rescinded their order.
Struck by the King’s admirable courage, I wrote to the palace in Denmark, seeking to verify a historical incident and learn more about this noble monarch who had demonstrated such integrity. He was an exemplar of how royalty should behave. Since I was writing about royalty, I wanted to define its ennobling characteristics.
The following reply from the Lord Chamberlain of Denmark made me wish I had never inquired. It taught me a lesson about the facts and fables and fantasies of royalty:
With regard to the incident described in Exodus by Leon Uris (1958), the following information regarding King Christian X of Denmark’s attitude toward the Jews can be supplied:
1. In 1933, after Hitler’s takeover, the King attended a service in the synagogue.
2. In 1941, after the German occupation, the King in a personal letter condoled the Jewish community due to a fire in the synagogue.
3. In October 1943, the King