It may have been a bout of natural shyness, but more likely it was the billows of lofty praise that kept the Princess of Wales blushingly silent in Glasgow last week. Diana was there to accept an honorary fellowship from the city's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. "For five centuries the perceptive heads of the Spencer family have married women of surpassing beauty, and the daughters they begat relegated Cleopatra to eclipse," gushed Professor Stanley Alstead during his presentation speech. After the ceremony, an admiring young Glaswegian, appropriately named Edward Romeo, begged permission to "kiss your hand, Ma'am." His passion...
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