Charles Missing

The Sun Herald

Saturday October 2, 1993

From ALEX MITCHELL in London

PRINCE Charles will be absent from Friday's wedding of his cousin, Viscount Linley.

He cited "unbreakable previous engagements" for not going, but palace-watchers suggested yesterday that Prince Charles had deliberately absented himself on a State visit to Turkey to avoid his estranged wife, Princess Diana.

Viscount Linley, the son of Princess Margaret and photographer Lord Snowdon, is to marry $240 million property heiress Serena Stanhope in the presence of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, the 93-year-old Queen Mother and the Duke and Duchess of York.

Celebrities among the 650 guests will include Elton John, Mick Jagger and his wife Jerry Hall.

A reception in the throne room at St James's Palace will be followed by a party at an Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge.