NAMES IN THE NEWS : Queen Honors Lady Di’s Servant
- Share via
LONDON — Anne Beckwith-Smith is around royalty every day, but she was still excited today to be honored by Queen Elizabeth II.
Beckwith-Smith, first lady-in-waiting to Princess Diana since 1981, was among 130 people receiving honors at Buckingham Palace.
“It is rather different for me today,” she said after receiving the insignia of Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, awarded by the queen for services to the Royal Family. “Usually one is watching, and to be actually part of it is very exciting,” Beckwith-Smith said.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
