Charles has changed —reporter
NZPA London On their first full day back home after the 17-day Royal tour of Canada, Prince Charles played polo while Princess Diana stayed home with baby William. The Princess was at Highgrove, their Gloucestershire mansion near Tetbury. The Prince played a strenuous game for his Blue Devils team on Lord Cowdray’s country estate at Midhurst, Sussex, 128 km away.
The Hollywood actor, Douglas Fairbanks, jun., who was there said of the Prince: “He’s quite astonishing — there’s no jet lag apparent at all.” A reporter who covered the Canadian tour said yesterday that Princes Charles had visibly altered, both in dress and demeanour, as a result of his marriage, his wife’s influence and their tours together to Australasia and Canada. “It is a new Prince of Wales who has made these tours with his wife,” wrote Stephen Lynas. “More concerned, more relaxed, and with subtle changes to his image that have made him seem younger than ever, but more professional too.”
The Princess has persuaded her husband to switch from the sombre suits that were his hallmark to stylish, double-breasted lines “that take away the years,” said the reporter. His hair now get a regular cut from his wife’s hairdresser, Kevin Shanley, giving the Prince a neater, trimmer and more casual look.
"But the major change in the Prince can only be seen from behind,” the reporter noted.
Prince Charles always has a hand ready to help his wife, either to steady her on the Royal barge or simply to let her know he is there. Sometimes his arm slips round her waist.
“And he takes his lead from her when it is time to have fun,” said Lynas. Meanwhile, Prince Andrew spent the week-end with his American showgirl friend, Koo Stak, at Daylerford, a mansion near Kingham in Oxfordshire, owned by a Ruhr steel magnate, Baron Heinrich Thyssen.
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