An urgent message flew last week from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House, out of which Queen Elizabeth's family had just moved. "The Duke of Cornwall is crying," it ran. "He cannot find his rabbit." Within moments, the white angora, overlooked in the moving, was rushed to the palace by limousine, and the most pressing problem in three-year-old Prince Charles' life was solved.
His elder relatives were not so fortunate. By tradition, the heir apparent to Britain's throne has first claim on the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall (an estimated $300,000 yearly) for his own uses, so young Charles could afford to...
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