People

By Guy D. Garcia

To judge from the kiss, they like wedded bliss. In fact Charles and Diana were osculating all over the British tabloids last week. The princess awarded her prince a relieved smack when he led his polo team to victory at a benefit match after his horse stumbled and nearly landed on top of him. The next day he lost, but fair maiden rewarded him nonetheless. As Britons sighed over their still astonishingly golden couple, someone did happen to notice a diamond ring given to Diana by Louis Gerard, a Paris jeweler who sponsored the polo benefit on behalf of Birthright, a charity for unborn children. After a press report describing the (pounds)10,000 gift appeared on Diana's 24th birthday, a palace spokesman swiftly announced, "Given the fact that members of the royal family do not accept gifts of this nature, it has been agreed with the owner that it be auctioned for Birthright." Gerard insisted that the whole affair was much ado about almost nothing. Said he: "To us it is like giving a bouquet of flowers." To some of us, anyway.