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Freddie Mercury

1991 - London (Garden Lodge, 1 Logan Place, Kensington)

Mary has the morning's Garden Lodge accounts at the small table by the door and Jim is at the lower kitchen with the afternoon's instructions for the cat-staff, and I keep my hand on the EMI press statement because if Mary sees the statement before the press release's hour is settled with Roxy Meade Mary will telephone Brian and Roger before the press release's first paragraph is at the EMI office's printer, and the first paragraph is the paragraph Brian and Roger are to read in the morning paper and not in Mary's voice.

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Princess Diana

1996 - Kensington Palace

In the small writing room at the back of Apartment Eight, three days after the divorce was made absolute and the letter from the Queen?s office removing my style of Her Royal Highness went into the drawer of my mother?s old desk, I am setting down my own account of myself, on plain paper, while I still can, before the version of me being assembled in rooms I am not in finishes replacing the one I can still recognise as mine.

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Garden Lodge, London

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Kensington Palace

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1991 - London (Garden Lodge, 1 Logan Place, Kensington)
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Mary has the morning's Garden Lodge accounts at the small table by the door and Jim is at the lower kitchen with the afternoon's instructions for the cat-staff, and I keep my hand on the EMI press statement because if Mary sees the statement before the press release's hour is settled with Roxy Meade Mary will telephone Brian and Roger before the press release's first paragraph is at the EMI office's printer, and the first paragraph is the paragraph Brian and Roger are to read in the morning paper and not in Mary's voice.
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