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By marrying his daughters to sons of the reigning emperor and then engineering timely abdications, a Fujiwara contrived always to be father-in-law, uncle, or grandfather behind the throne.
The most widely published photograph across western Europe was of Mohammed al Fayed, the Egyptian owner of the London department store Harrods (and now-never-to-be father-in-law of Princess Diana), holding on his head a diamond and platinum coronet that had been reduced in the Harrods sale from $400,000 to just under $300,000.
Still, let me tell you my story: I am a father-in-law who gets along nicely--I thought--with his daughter and her husband, but who refuses to enter their apartment because they have hung a lewd picture of themselves, er, copulating in the living room.
Abandon him to that sumbitch Starr, until he started talking about our use of his father-in-law as a front, about the Rose files in his basement, about what Vince Foster had been working on?
Embarrassed, I gave my father-in-law money to give to the hostess to cover our meals.