A palace insider said last night: 'Richard and Julie make a perfect couple.'

But a closer examination shows that it is also a Saudi scandal, a case that is slowly shedding light on the role a handful of palace insiders played in the huge fraud.

In the end, the marriage in ruins, snooty Richard gets the last word: "You could say that she was brought down by palace insiders and dirty tricks.

"Just show you love your country," Mrs. Aquino told him, according to palace insiders.

Due to its insistence that palace insiders stop interfering in politics, the UDD has been criticized by the PAD as being an 'anti-monarchist', and even a 'republican' movement, and many Web sites and other media sympathetic to the UDD have been shut down under Thailand's strict lèse majesté laws.

Prince Turki, Mr. Clemons and palace insiders say, had lobbied Washington for a broader policy that eschews a military confrontation in favor of a policy that will strike Iran's interests.

Tuyến had been a palace insider, but a rift had developed in recent years, and he began to plot as early as 1962.

According to a "palace insider," the 29-year-old Duchess is setting up a trio of nurseries at Nottingham Cottage, Kensington Palace and the couple's home in Wales.

Still, the palace insider acknowledged, tensions remain within Mr. Karzai's own inner circle.

A palace insider and favorite of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Prasong was later appointed by the junta to the National Legislative Assembly.