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PEOPLE, Page 87A Game of Charades
By MICHAEL QUINN
Legally, it's still a marriage. But in fact the
relationship between Britain's PRINCE CHARLES and PRINCESS DIANA
is now at best an elaborate photo op. Last week the Waleses
shared a carriage at the thousand-year-old Order of the Garter
ceremony, and surfaced at the Royal Ascot horse races, events
studied by royal watchers the way Kremlinologists once analyzed
who showed up at Lenin's tomb on May Day. Charles and Di left
Ascot side by side and all smiles in Charles' Aston Martin
convertible. But a few miles down the road, beyond the reach of
inquisitive cameras, the car stopped. The princess climbed into
a waiting Jaguar and sped off to London; her wayward consort
joined friends at a private polo field. Meanwhile, the gossipy
bio Diana: Her True Story hit bookstore shelves across the
country -- except at stores owned by tony retailer Harrods. "Our
customers would not expect us to stock such a scurrilous book,"
sniffed spokesman Michael Cole. But excerpts from Diana,
featuring devastating portraits of a cold Charles and a suicidal
Diana, boosted sales of the Sunday Times to Britons, who
consider the saga of the unraveling royal marriage the tastiest
thing in a newspaper since fish and chips.
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