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- PEOPLE, Page 87A Game of Charades
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- 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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