The ‘Kissing Princess’

Press, 3 November 1981, Page 13

The ‘Kissing Princess’

NZPA London The Princess of Wales hai? become the “Kissing Princess.” The “New Standard” diarist has described the Princess’s , habit of bestowing kisses'in public as “enchanting” and said the Royal Family would have get used to it. Lord Snowden, Constable of Caernarvon Castle, got two busses on the cheek from the Princess during the Royal visit to Wales. At Chester, she asked a girl, aged eight, suffering from spina bifida,.“Would you like a kiss and a hug?” — and obliged' when the offer was accepted. A boy, aged seven, at the resort town of Rhyl told hen

"My Dad says, ‘Give us a kiss’” — and he got one. Apart from the much photographed kiss with Prince Charles on the Buckingham Palace balcony on their wedding day, the Princess also pecked the cheek of the Lord Chamberlain, Lord McLean, when he was seeing them off on their honeymoon train at Waterloo station. At the end of the honeymoon cruise in Egypt, the late President Sadat’s wife, Jihan, was on the receiving end of a kiss from Lady Diana, who also later blew 1 kisses to crowds of Egyp- ! tiaris bidding her’farewell., >' .ft -is - a far cry- from -the ’ days when George V used to try to discourage members of his family from kissing s anyone at all in public, The ’ “New Standard” diarist said.