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f- tvu- jf-e Saturday, July 11, 1981 Mattoon (II.) Journal Gazette- 31 uuieini 'Elizabeth wins 'cate. fir from visitors' fees. A spokesman said visitors have increased by "hundreds a week" since the wedding was of Lords out of existence against the advice of the sovereign and he or she refused to sign the bill is a matter of conjecture. The government of the day "advises" the ruler on official actions down to writing the "speech from the throne," actually the legislative program of the administration, which the monarch simDlv reads to narliameni it LONDON. (UPI) Will Queen' Elizabeth abdicate the throne so Prince Charles can become a relatively youthful King Charles III? Someone once remarked in the presence of Prince Philip that it would be nice if Charles could succeed to the throne while he was still comparatively young.

"You are speaking," said the Prince icily, "of the death of the Queen." British rulers do not abdicate except in the most exceptional of circumstances such as those that impelled King Edward VIII into self-exile as the Duke of Windsor. Royal circles scoff at suggestions, mostly in the media, that Elizabeth might follow the example of Holland's 3ueens and hand over her crown and uties to the next in line at about the usual age for retirement in industry. Always in the minds of those who try to promote this view is the example of King Edward VII who was a worn-out 59 when his mother, Queen Victoria, died: and who was himself dead nine years later. History knows him better as a playboy than as the architect of the Entente Cordiale with France because of Victoria's refusal to relinquish any of her powers. During his long wait he too often retreated into the pursuit of pleasure.

Prince Charles is in a better position. His mother has made clear that he will have work to do of national importance while she is alive, certainly as an emissary of the crown on state visits abroad. But the chance of the queen abdicating the throne for him is exceedingly slight. A royal source said recently he doubted ii bad ever crossed her mind. "She has celebrated her Silver Jubilee," he said, "and it would be natural for her to hope to stay on for the Golden Jubilee of her accession.

That will be in 2002 when she will be only 76. The Windsor women are long-lived. Recent photo of Lady Diana Spencer Lady Diana Spencer displays good humor ii me ruier reiusea to toiiow gov- T7 imemai aovice on a matter ot great national importance or oi great international significance, it would create what Js-called "a constitutional i crisis." In other words, the very future of the monarchy would be at stake. There might be an election do the future of the throne. Not everyone is convinced that after a thousand yeans it would automatically lose a conflict with me eieciea government.

But this situation should never happen. The monarchy and parliament have long since learned to snare the running of the countrv. Parliament takes care of the power, the monarchy taxes care oi me pomp. Faversham, England pub landlord Graham Marsh has banned any mention of Lady Diana Spencer's July 29 wedding to Prince Charles on his premises. "I've nothing against the royal family," he said.

"I'm just fed up with this overkill. "Not a day goes by without hearing about the color of Lady Di's dress or how many times Charles fell off his horse. 1 find it embarrassing." Marsh, 33, said he will not allow radios or newspapers into his pub until after The Day, and any drinker rash enough even to whisper about the event will be asked to leave for the rest of the day. St. Paul's cathedral in London is counting on a flood of royal wedding tourists to wipe out its $235,000 deficit fortheyear.

At Easter it began charging visitors 30 pence (70 cents) admission to the east end, which includes the American Memorial chapel. This added to existing charges of 40 pence (92 cents) for the crypt and 60 pence ($1.38) for the gallery. Most of the cathedral's income comes prince asked two married women who nave been -among his closest confidantes for years whether they approved of his choice. It is assumed that they did, since it was obvious for weeks before Queen Elizabeth announced the engagement Feb. 24 that Lady Diana fitted every possible criterion for the future role of 48th Queen of the United Kingdom.

Prince Charles once said the perfect wife for him would be someone from the thin upper crust of society or royalty, accustomed to the protocol child-bearing potential to complete the list. Lady Diana, 20, is a member of a family which dates back to Saxon times, carries the blood of the Stuart kings and of many great British families, including Winston Churchill's. She has five dukes among her ancestors and is a 7th cousin ohct removed of Charles himself. Her forebears were among the richest in Britain before Columbus discovered America. United Press International It says a lot for the good humor of Lady Diana Spencer thafshe submitted to the presumptuous, some might say humiliating, preliminaries to her marriage to Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, without losing the innate friendliness that is her greatest asset.

Her "unblemished past," meaning her virginity, was confirmed by doctors and proclaimed in public by her uncle, Lord Fermoy. Her ability to bear children without difficulty was the subject of another medical investigation which sh apparently passed jfc father, Earl Spencer, announced: "She's superb physical specimen Thesf Victorian titeV are still considered necessary to the future of the dynasty, though, as one commentator pointed out, the same yardstick of virtue and virility was not applied in the case of Prince Charles. There was another incident that might have been depressing to anyone not of her even temperAccording to those who know this sort of thing, the a nationwide television audience. believes he was a much misunderstood man. With the advantage family documents and records Charles has come to regard his ancestor! as wise, farseeing, forgiving, a man ofuearning andDenevoience.

Medical research now tends toNbear out the theory that George was ill wh he made bad-tempered rejections of theN olive branches extended by the American colonists and when he ignored the pleas of many Englishmen on behalf of their kinfolk overseas. There is a royal disease, porphyria, which still crops up in the web of royal relations radiating from the House of Windsor. The disease, a liver dysfunction, is characterized by uncontrollable irritation and may have misled doctors into thinking George III was insane. The real George III, in Prince Charles's view, is the man, magnanimous in defeat, who told the emissaries of the new United States that nothing would please him more than to see it become a great country. The other kings named Charles were father and son.

Charles I offended the British early by marrying a Roman Catholic, Henrietta Maria of France, sister of King Louis XIII. When his favorite, Buckingham, undertook some unsuccessful foreign adventures and attacks on civil and religious liberties led to large emigration to America, the scene was set for a battle with parliament. This ended in a trial of the king for "high treason" and his beheading. Oliver Cromwell then established a Commonwealth, defeated the executed ruler's son, Charles II, in battle and sent him scurrying into exile in Holland. Charles (l was restored in 1660 and presided over an era of increasing English sea power and the rise of parliamentary influence.

He was pleasure-loving and immoral and had children by Neil Gwynn and others but none in wedlock. The kings and queens of Britain have surrendered most of their powers to parliament but they still have the right to be informed of what their governments plan to do and to offer advice. They have many duties, however, such as approving and signing bills, Without the royal signature none of the laws of parliament can, theoretically, go into effect. What would happen if, for example, the House of Commons voted the House pair. Sometime during the evening it was "change partners.

Sarah, now happily married to landowner Neil McCorquodale, claims she brought the twosome together. "I played cupid," she said. Charles, however, had also been showing, interest in Amanda Knat-chbull. granddaughter of his idol. Lord Mountbatten, and Buckingham Palace was' beginning to pay considerable attention to this desirable friendship.

Then, out of nowhere, in the summer of 1980, Diana appeared as a guest at the royal family's favorite Scottish home, Balmoral. There was an equally surprising appearance as a guest at Princess Margaret's birthday in November. Newspapers decided, rightly, something decidedly worthy of note had been going on behind the scenes in that summer ajjd autumn. Diana was rarely of MM FAW KathiePaden Mattoon "I do not think it's been' overdone and I plan to watch it." oyallove story embellished by legend-makers Some of the unsought honors that have come to Lady Diana Spencer since Prince Charles announced their engagement: A toy firm has 'named its latest model, a 9-inch-loifg model railway locomotive, the "Lady Diana." In the Grosvenor Hotel in Chester, on the Welsh border, the management is converting Room 314 into -the "Spencer Roonv" a shrine to a future queen. Lady Diana stayed in that room as a.

humble guest for one night last year. A London newspaper ran a "Lady Di Look-Alike Competition," whose first prize was a "wardrobe of Lady Di-style clothes." A recent issue of the Cremation Society journal noted two important events in July the royal wedding and the Cremation Society's annual conference and added: "If you are coming from overseas, why not attend Prince Charles and his new princess, Lady Diana Spencer, will be emotion-ally incompatable 57 percent of the time, says American biorhythm expert Bernard Gittleson, 60. "They are going to be at opposite ends most of the he said. "They are going to have to realize they are individuals with different rhythms and different temperaments. Gittleson said he based his analysis on the couple's birth dates, and said "there will be great areas for arguments" since "they are opposites physically" and "intellecutaTry compatible" only 52 percent of the timer A Crown Agents spokesman says 9 countries are issuing special stamps.to mark the July 29 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

Each country will produce three different stamps, all to go on sale Ji)lV 22. Kl Parker-Bowles. Camilla is one of tp two married women the other is Lady Tryon who have been Charles's closest confidantes for years. Holden believes both were asked to approve his choice. In their first interview after the Fety 24 announcement of the engagement Charles and Diana, posing carefully for Shotographs in the garden of Buckingt am Palace so he would look taller thajg her, were asked if they were in love.

"Of course," said Diana. "Whatever 'in love' means." said Charles. The 12-year age gap? 1 "I've never really thought about itji Diana. "Diana will certainly keep me young," said the Prince. Ray Belleau Mattoon "We should be interested in what's happening over there.

After all, they are English cousins. They would be interested if it were a presidential wedding here." (I permitted privacy in public thereafter. If there was any doubt she was Charles's chosen, it vanished when Buckingham Palace itself took the unprecedented step of demanding the retraction of a story that it believed reflected on Lady Diana's reputation. The queen herself, it was intimated, had taken "grave exception." According to Anthony Holden in "Their Royal Highnesses," it Was just before Christmas 1980 while standing in a cabbage patch behind the farmhouse of friends in Gloucestershire that Charles tentatively raised the question of marriage with a question phrased on the lines of: "If I were to ask you, do you think it might be possible?" Diana said she "just giggled," with nerves one assumes, but her affirmative was never in question. The farmhouse also rates a footnote.

It is the home of Andrew and Camilla When Prince Charles becomes king, he can chose any name he pleases, though it is regarded as certain he will go down in history as King Charles III. Neither Charles I (1625-1649) nor Charles II (1660-1685) figures among the heir to the throne's royal idols. The sovereign he most admires is King George III (1761-1820) even though he cost Britain its American colonies. Prince Charles has done a lot of reading about George III and, as he told the 1977 shoot. There" was Charles appreciatively eyeing Diana.

There was Diana instantly smitten, said her friends, with Charles. But she was only 16, and Charles went on his way squiring this girl and that -when his intensive schedule of public duties permitted -in the search for a bride that had encompassed tall girls and short girls, redheads, blondes and brunettes, titled girls and Commoners, Britons and foreigners. The list of remaining eligibles was now perilously short and his father, Prince Philip, had warned him that he was running out of possible wives in the right age group. But there was one historic, as it turned out, interlude whose significance most observers overlooked at the time. Charles and brother Andrew double-dated Sarah and Diana.

It began with Diana and Andrew as a combination and Sarah and Charles as another KayGaley Mattoon "It's different to relate to all that pomp and ceremony What are your views on all the media coverage the upcoming royal wedding? romance trying to find true love, he began to escort Diana's older sister. Lady Sarah Spencer, a red-haired beauty company he found stimulating. In 1977, she took the heir to the throne shooting at her father's ancestral estate, Althorp, and Diana came along. Charles noted later that Diana, tall, well endowed and self-possessed, had grown into a most attractive young lady. Sarah, meanwhile, developed a nervous condition and Charles helped her to regain her health by his friendship and presence.

In 1978, they went to Switzerland together on a skiing holiday that had newspapers speculating in a way that lea Lady Sarah to make clear it was a platonic vacation. She added that in her opinion Charles was not ready for marriage. She apparently forgot the tableau at camera Chris Plummer Mattoon "I think it's all been blown out of proportion. They could use that money in many other places. I don'tplantowatchitonTV." LONDON (UPI) Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer lived a few hundred yards from each other in separate stately homes on the royal estate of Sandringham but met only briefly before 1977 when she was 16.

This hasn't stopped the legend-makers from assuming that she was madly in love with him from the age of 8, a good year to choose since he gave her a book at that time. He had written a fairy tale of sorts, "The Old Man of Lochnager," for his founger brothers, Prince Andrew and 'rince Edward, and since Diana was one of their playmates he offered her a copy as well. No one, not even Diana's divorced father, Earl Spencer, with whom she lived, could have foretold or even hoped the sturdy little girl would be a future queen. As the years went by and Prince Charles moved from romance to Roving JeffCizek Mattoon "I try to avoid the stories in magazines and the newspapers. Most people don't really seem to care.

XJ hi i a I I i I i I il I I i II Larry Belleau Mattoon VI think it's very important to the English, but they are getuni 'carried from a commercial poini of view..