THE Princess Royal was granted a 'quickie' unconditional divorce to end her marriage to Captain Mark Phillips.
The special procedure divorce was first in a list of 30 cases being with dealt with in Court Three of Somerset House, London.
Rescue workers were sifting through rubble in the Mexican city of Guadalajara after a series of massive gas explosions killed more than 200 people.
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