Sunday Times Magazine 13 February 1977 Nicholas Faith on the BBC Prince Bertil & Lillian Craig

The Sunday Times Magazine 13 February 1977

LIFESPAN
Craft a master modeller. Page 15
Rationing one familys week on the wartime food allowance. Page 16
Design the enamel revival. Page 17
Arts Image of the week; hot-favourite paperbacks. Page 18
Profile Carl Gresham, manager of celebrity appearances. Page 20
All together now: photographs of the group cult by Neal Slavin. Page 26
Bridge by Boris Schapiro; Chess by Peter Clarke. Page 50

Sacred Cows: this week Nicholas Faith on the BBC;

illustration by Peter Brookes. Page 55

Cover: Prince Bertil of Sweden and Lilian Craig, a married dancer from Swansea, met in
London in 1943. They fell in love and Lilian Craig was
divorced in 1947 but King Gustaf Adolf VI, Prince Ber-
tils father, forbade them to marry she was a commoner
and a divorcee. After the war,: when the cover picture, left, was taken in a Paris
restaurant, the couple began a secret relationship.
The Swedish Press knew, but agreed not to publicise.

In 1973 King Gustaf Adolf died and Bertils
nephew Carl Gustaf became king. Last year he
himself married a commoner and. invited Lilian
officially to Court for his wedding. On December 7,
33 years after they first met, Bertil and Lilian,
now 64 and 61 (inset, left), became man and wife.
In Part One of our series The Joy of Ageing we
look at other people who are enjoying success and
happiness late in life - such as Dame Anna Neagle
- and Lord Rothschild; we also give an extract
- from Dr Alex Comforts controversial new book,
A Good Age, in which he reassesses old age; colour
photographs by David Montgomery. Page 34

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