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November 14
The couple met through their interest in horses
1973: Crowds cheer marriage of Princess Anne
England have
The wedding of the Queen"s only daughter, Princess Anne, has taken place at
Westminster Abbey. Princess Anne, 23, married Mark Phillips, a lieutenant in the
Army.
An estimated 500 million television viewers around the world are believed
to have watched the ceremony.
Princess Anne wore an embroidered Tudor-style wedding dress with a high
collar and mediaeval sleeves.
Lieutenant Phillips was in the full scarlet and blue uniform of his
regiment, the Queen"s Dragoon Guards.
The princess" bridesmaid was her nine-year-old cousin, Lady Sarah-Armstrong
Jones, daughter of Princess Margaret.
Her youngest brother, nine-year-old Prince Edward, was her pageboy.
The wedding day had been declared a national holiday and crowds lined the
streets to watch the newly married couple on their way back to Buckingham
Palace.
Many well-wishers had spent the night sleeping in the Mall to guarantee a
good view of the pair who travelled in a horse-drawn carriage.
Later they appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace and waved to the
crowd below.
After a wedding lunch, the Princess and her new husband left to stay
overnight at White House Lodge in Richmond Park.
They are due to travel to Barbados tomorrow where they will board the royal
yacht Britannia for 18 days sailing in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The couple met through their mutual interest in horse riding and their
engagement was announced in May.
It is only the second time in more than 200 years that a member of the
British royal family has married a commoner.
The last commoner to marry into the royal family was the Queen Mother in
1923.
The bombing led to the deaths of 270 people
1991: US accuses Libyans of Lockerbie bombing
Artificially 1969:
The Two Libyan intelligence officers have been accused of masterminding the
Lockerbie bombing.
The United States has called on Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi to hand over
the two men, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah.
The men have been indicted in the US on 193 charges, including three which
carry the death penalty.
Arrest warrants have also been issued for the two Libyans in Scotland on
charges of murder and conspiracy in relation to bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in
December 1988.
The plane was en route from London to New York when it exploded over
Lockerbie in Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the
ground.
President George Bush is to consult British Prime Minister John Major and
other world leaders over the next few days to decide the international
response.
Both President Bush and Mr Major have refused to rule out military action
if Libya fails to hand over the suspects for trial.
However, Libya"s ambassador to France, Saeeb Mujber, has said his country
would not comply with the indictments.
Mr Mujber told the BBC that surrendering the two men would be to surrender
Libya"s sovereignty.
Libya had been implicated as an excuse for a military assault, he
added.
""This is a political thing. This is a lynching to bring Libya to its
knees," Mr Mujber said.
But the US acting Attorney General, William Barr, said a fragment from the
Toshiba radio-cassette recorder which contained the bomb linked the accused to
the crime.
"Scientists determined that it was part of the bomb"s timing device and
traced it to its manufacturer - a Swiss company that had sold it to a high-level
Libyan intelligence official," Mr Barr said.
Vocabulary:
conspiracy: a combination of people for an evil purpose(同谋) |
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