European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine Sarah Ferguson left with Mother Susan Barrantes at Windsor last week to sea Prince Charles play Polo. Fergie marrying into a changed Royal family by Gregory Jensen United press International w Hen Sarah Ferguson marries princ Andrew next month she will enter a Royal family which is not quite the same As Leone Princess Diana joined live years ago Fergie herself s part of the change she is. As inc British press breathlessly puts it. A gut with a  both the Zinsli udon of monarchy and Iho Royal family s own attitudes Are altering All he time. Change is often glacially slow unspoken and half hidden. But Queen Elizabeth ii s 34-year reign has seen a drastic loosening of the straight laces inherited from Queen Victoria. The monarchy now reflects British society s changed moral standards and lakes More account of what britons will accept. The Sarah Andrew marriage july 23 will Lack nothing of Royal wedding pomp panoply and Fra Dilion. This 26 year old redhead s acceptance by the family obviously j3 total. But this marriage says one expert is a great  what is different and rather  said Harold Brooks Baker of Buike s peerage the aristocrats Bible is that she has had a few serious romances that everyone knows about newspapers refer openly 1o Sarah s two live in  there Are solemn discussions concluding thai her experience is a Good thing. Yet when Diana married Prince Charles in 1981, her purity and virginity was made a vital Issue of Public and Media debate. Sarah of course will not be Queen As Diana will. Andrew is now Only fourth in line to the throne. By i the winking Al her past is foot of another shift in sri lain s thousand year old monarchy a demonstration that Royal echelons Are no longer  in Brooks Baker s Lerm Wilh the notion of feminine purify. In Many other ways the Royal family has become More relaxed More open even while preserving inc Royal mystique until recently cartoons depicting its members were Laboo. Now Tiey abound. Until recently it would have been impossible for the Queen to take part in an informal to Stow Chat log about her horses As she did not Long ago hers More than Uny previous is a performing monarchy consecrated by camera and microphone and relying heavily on the Media forms projection Friday june 27, 1986 Trofo Royal biographer Rohrl  thus Cli Afton and Diana coupled their engagement announcement with an informal and unprecedented pint Lel vision interview. Sarah and Andrew raid the same consolidating a new  Irod Linn in Queen now grabs every Cliance to meet Iron subjects Al handshake Range. Princess Anne in. Fielded Livo questions Tom Ordinary people on a a Idio phone in and wrote a chatty article Lor punch Andrew was interviewed on women s Hutu and published a Book of his photographs Charles stars in a to documentary about his duchy of Cornwall is Lac Bright and attractive Young people Lite Diana. Charles and Andrew himself have helped pork up the Royal image Bui Sarah s new family also has moved with the limes it will never be just Iho people Noel door " tit try will always to an apart Ness a Reserve a particular style i entirely agree that to arc old fashioned Philip once said it is an old fashioned  yet in a Triumph of Quiel Public relations the monarchy has opened itself to Public gaze the process probably began with the 1969 Royl family to documentary which for the firs Lime captured informal Chat among Royal family members and showed glimpses of its private moments the big thing about it said producer Richard Cawston. Was not merely thai we were allowed to film things Hinl had never been filmed before but the lad that vie had a microphone there i think that until Tenno member of the Royal family had Ever been heard on a Public medium uttering anything other 1han a prepared  Elizabeth delighted Wilh a change of Public Altitude which resulted soon began her walkabouts those mingling Wilh Ordinary sub Els which have been a constant feature since Caslon went on to transform Royal Christmas broadcasts which began Wilh King Georgo v s 251 self words Over Iho radio in 1932. Out of All recognition. They now include scenes of the family including the Queen s beloved Corgi dogs and Are so informal thai bbl wags dub the annual show Corgi and Boss there Are even Nubelo shifts in the monarchy s Alli Lude Loward divorce though no expert today will even guess wha might have happened had Sarah Ferguson included a divorce in her past. The Queen is not Only defender of the Faith but supreme governor of the Church of England which has stringent strictures on divorce. In the past this has brought Heartbreak and More. King Edward Viii had to surrender his throne in 1936 Tor the woman i love because Wallace Simpson was divorced. Princess Margaret the Queen s sister had to give up the love other life. Group Cape. Peter Townsend. Because he had divorced his Wile. Between Margaret s 1955 ordeal and now Tiree of Elizabeth s first cousins who divorced or married divorcees All had to be married or re married abroad so rigid was the Royal stance thai no divorced person was allowed into the Royal enclosure Al the Ascot races which the Royal family always attends. Yol in s978, with the Queen s permission Margaret herself divorced lord Snowdon the former Antony Armstrong Jones the first divorce in the immediate Royal family for 438 years since Henry Viii shed Anne of Cleves 1540. Quietly and without fuss divorced persons have been admitted to Ascot s enclosure. Current reports say the Queen has invited Sarah s divorced Mother and her Argentine second husband to the enclosure this year. Obviously there has been a change toward divorce like the altered viewpoint which winks at Sarah Ferguson s past it is an unspoken and half hidden thing As Are All changes in Britain s monarchy. This is something Sarah in her current last minute grooming on being Royal is learning in no Uncertain terms. No matter How irrepressible she is no matter flow fresh and refreshing a personality Sarah will not change he institution of monarchy drastically or swiftly. Like Diana she May add to its already immense popularity and Glamor. But she will conform to its unique requirements and alter things Only very very gradually Ilal All. The stars and stripes Page 13