GREAT BRITAIN: The Dolly Princess

The royal family had done everything they could. The slight, handsome suitor had been sent off to another country. The pretty Princess had been admonished on the responsibilities of her position and her duty to the throne. The Archbishop of Canterbury had warned her that the church could not marry her to a divorced man; the Prime Minister had exhorted her to remember the sad story of her Uncle Edward. As a last resort, they had packed her off for a tour of the sunny Caribbean, urging her to have fun and think it...

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