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Article: Continental Drift.
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- W
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Voltaire famously once observed, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." With the amount of attention--i.e., printers' ink, film and airtime--the British royal family has received in the last two decades, the same could be said of that ancient institution. Just how would we all amuse ourselves without the Windsors' endless tales of woe?
With the clan more overexposed than J.Lo, London Bureau Chief James Fallon turned his attention to the Continent this month, and to the collection of young royals who've recently come of age there. Fallon knows whereof he speaks. He's been W's eyes and ears in London for 20 years, arriving ...