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A 2 1/2-year-old girl has won the right to the first name Princess after a battle royal between her parents and officials from Buckingham Palace and the Scottish bureaucracy. Princess Dulcima Rosetta Manwaring-Spencer claims no royal connections but her parents liked the name and never imagined they would run into problems with the Royal Family and the government.

Dozens of royals and hundreds of their friends gathered Sunday at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 80th birthday of Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Festivities began with a church service at Windsor's St. George's Chapel.

Dozens of royals and hundreds of their friends gathered Sunday at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 80th birthday of Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Festivities began with a church service at Windsor's St. George's Chapel.

Edward VIII gave up the British throne for Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American socialite he loved. Now, an auction house has sold more than 260 of his love letters--but they're not to Wallis. "Mon amour, I swear I'll never marry any woman other than you," he wrote to Freda Dudley-Ward, the wife of a Parliament member, with whom he had a 16-year relationship. The letter was dated April 18, 1920, when he was still Prince of Wales.

Queen Elizabeth II led ceremonies in London on Sunday to honor the 54-nation Commonwealth's war dead. The queen, dressed in black, laid a wreath of red poppies at the base of the Cenotaph white stone monument in Whitehall, heart of Britain's government. Prince Philip and several other members of the royal family also laid wreaths at the monument on Remembrance Sunday.

Edward VIII gave up the British throne for Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American socialite he loved. Now, an auction house has sold more than 260 of his love letters--but they're not to Wallis. "Mon amour, I swear I'll never marry any woman other than you," he wrote to Freda Dudley-Ward, the wife of a Parliament member, with whom he had a 16-year relationship. The letter was dated April 18, 1920, when he was still Prince of Wales.

Britain's Prince Charles, who broke an arm in a fall from a polo pony, left the hospital Sunday, the 29th birthday of his wife, Princess Diana. The 41-year-old heir to the throne was taken to the hospital at Cirencester, western England, after he broke his right arm in two places in the fall Thursday. "Doctors are pleased with the prince's progress," said his press secretary, Dickie Arbiter. "The swelling in his arm has gone down."

Now that Vice President Dan Quayle will be out of a job, I suggest he apply to the royal family of England. That would kill two birds with one stone. He'd have a job and at the same time he could teach them about "family values." S. DELL SCOTT Encino

Miss California once licked a banana slug. Miss South Dakota skated through a blizzard in a swimsuit. And Miss Tennessee was offered 5,000 camels for her hand in marriage while traveling in Israel. If the judges at this year's Miss USA pageant decide to pick winners based on weirdness, there will be some stiff competition: Most unusual hobby Tie: "Listening to the advice of elders" (Miss District of Columbia); "reading about the royal family of England, especially before 1950" (Miss Louisiana).

LLOYD G. SCOTT Construction worker, from London, three years in Southern California I understand that Prince Charles said he was forced to marry Diana even though he didn't love her. Well, the Royal Family's been doing that for hundreds of years. Originally, the children used to marry princesses or princes from Germany or France just to keep the peace among nations. So it's nothing new. The fact is that now, through the media, it comes out.

Queen Elizabeth II led ceremonies in London on Sunday to honor the 54-nation Commonwealth's war dead. The queen, dressed in black, laid a wreath of red poppies at the base of the Cenotaph white stone monument in Whitehall, heart of Britain's government. Prince Philip and several other members of the royal family also laid wreaths at the monument on Remembrance Sunday.

Britain's Prince Charles, who broke an arm in a fall from a polo pony, left the hospital Sunday, the 29th birthday of his wife, Princess Diana. The 41-year-old heir to the throne was taken to the hospital at Cirencester, western England, after he broke his right arm in two places in the fall Thursday. "Doctors are pleased with the prince's progress," said his press secretary, Dickie Arbiter. "The swelling in his arm has gone down."

A 2 1/2-year-old girl has won the right to the first name Princess after a battle royal between her parents and officials from Buckingham Palace and the Scottish bureaucracy. Princess Dulcima Rosetta Manwaring-Spencer claims no royal connections but her parents liked the name and never imagined they would run into problems with the Royal Family and the government.

Every day since 1968, William Bennett Edwards has grown more certain something secret, something sinister, is growing around the rocky acreage of copperheads and poison ivy on top of Afton Mountain, where he lives outside Waynesboro, Va. He and his wife, Virginia Davis Edwards, say they have witnessed over the years the world's richest and most powerful people motoring past their modest house just off the shoulder of Route 250.

Prince Edward, the least troubled member of Queen Elizabeth's problem-ridden brood, made an appearance Friday afternoon at the most unlikely of venues: the domed homeless village known as Genesis I. And so, in the dusky late afternoon, in the shadow of a freeway on-ramp, Edward, in natty double-breasted gray suit, sat in a white, fiberglass dome with Ted Hayes, the dreadlock homeless activist and onetime mayoral candidate, for a chat.