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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Other by Thomas Tryon Jaguars hoping for 'immediate impact players' with other early-round picks. Much has been made of the Jaguars’ first-overall selection in Thursday’s draft, but NFL Network’s James Palmer provided some insight on the team’s plans with their other nine selections (Twitter link ). Besides the No. 1 pick, the Jaguars are also armed with four more picks through the first three rounds of the draft: No. 25 No. 33 No. 45 No. 65. Palmer notes that the Jaguars are hoping for “immediate impact players” with each of those four aforementioned selections. While their draft ammo (which includes two more fourth-rounders, two more fifth-rounders, and one seventh-rounder) would seemingly provide them with opportunities to move up in pursuit of those impact players, Palmer reports that that likely won’t be the case. Instead of trading up, the Jaguars are more likely to keep each of these selections, and they could even move back and pick up more middle-round picks. The front office can check one ‘need’ off the list when they select quarterback Trevor Lawrence with the first-overall pick, but what other positions will they be looking at in the draft? Despite the fact that the team addressed their defensive line needs in free agency, Palmer points to defensive linemen as potential targets. Further, while the organization is a fan of their starting offensive linemen, that’s another spot the Jaguars could use an early-round pick on. Tight end is another position of need, but Palmer said the team is wary of reaching for any particular player. Subscribe to Yardbarker's Morning Bark, the most comprehensive newsletter in sports. Customize your email to get the latest news on your favorite sports, teams and schools. Emailed daily. Always free! Sign up now ▸ More must-reads: Related slideshow: 2021 NFL three-round mock draft (Provided by Yardbarker) The Other by Thomas Tryon. By Christopher Wilson Updated: 00:08 BST, 11 October 2008. At the races: Kanga with Prince Charles at a polo match in 1987. She was the Australian who married a peer and became a prince's lover. But the affair broke her heart and unhinged her mind. The name is largely forgotten. The big hair, the luscious lips, and the constant partying have so faded in memory that they might never have existed. When Kanga Tryon - once a household name and a central figure in the life of the Prince of Wales - died almost three months after Princess Diana, in 1997, she was quickly forgotten. Nobody ever quite understood how she fitted into the royal jigsaw. For most people, the battle for Charles's heart was a straight playoff between two women - married Camilla, his one true love, and virginal Diana, a knee-jerk response to a nation baying for a royal bride. But, for a time, Kanga was just as important to Charles as Camilla. Yet the story of how she came to love and lose her prince has never been fully told. Until now. For the first time, a Channel 4 documentary reveals the extraordinary bed-hopping antics of the heir to the throne in the years leading up to his marriage to Diana. High Society reveals how, for a period during the 1970s, when both women were married to friends of his, HRH bounced from the bed of Camilla to that of Lady Tryon, then back again. While dithering over the very necessary duty of finding a suitable wife, Charles was happily having his cake and eating it. For both women were his mistress. Both bore sons whose godfather he became. Both named them Charles (in Camilla's case, it was a second name). And, in the end, both hated the other with a loathing that bordered on the pathological. Yet we only know about Camilla. Andrew Morton's seismic expose; Diana: Her True Story, published in 1992, first revealed Charles's lifelong craving for the horsy ex-debutante from Sussex. Jonathan Dimbleby, Charles's official biographer, went on to confirm the detail, wondering whether, if things had been different, Charles and Camilla might not have got it together the first time around. Homeless: Kanga in 1997, shortly before she died. But no book has been written on the former Dale Harper, born in 1947, to a wealthy middleclass family in Melbourne, Australia. The bare bones of her life - childhood spina bifida, youthful dalliances, and a swift engagement to an Old Etonian peer and banker, Lord Tryon - fill out the yellowing cuttings in newspaper archives. But, these days, you don't hear her name mentioned anymore. I knew her in her heyday. As a gossip columnist for a national newspaper, it was my job to tread the same red carpets and sample the same fine vintages that Kanga enjoyed on a nightly basis. Back then, she played a shrewd game, appearing to hate the limelight, but all the while, it was secretly meat and drink to her. There were other aristocrats' wives - many - who were never spotted in the company of the glitterati, but Kanga wasn't one of them. At such events, she would deliberately display a haughty demeanour - God forbid someone of her social standing should court publicity. But the truth is, Kanga was an astute businesswoman and understood that notoriety meant money. Only she and her husband - one of Prince Charles's inner circle - knew the details of the family finances, or rather lack of them. Illicit: Charles with Kanga and her baby son in 1976. At the time that she and Lord Tryon married in 1973, his ancestral home, the Old Manor House at Great Durnford, near Salisbury, had been handed over to a school. Kanga later claimed it was her father's money that provided the first roof over their heads. Yet, before too long, it was reacquired and became once more a family home - refurbished and repolished under her vigorous supervision, and, as she said, with her money. It was through her husband that she met Charles, and her beauty and Australian informality soon won his heart. In fact, the rest of his family adored her too: she and Lord Tryon were invited to Balmoral, where she would ride out with the Queen. Returning the compliment, Lord Tryon invited Charles to his fishing lodge in Iceland. Sequestered so far away, Charles fell swiftly in love with his friend's wife. Suddenly, Kanga discovered the enormous power wielded in high society by a woman who'd become the Prince's mistress. It was something Camilla understood all too well, but, to a middle-class maven from Melbourne, so far removed from the arcane behaviour patterns of Britain's blue-bloods, it came as a complete revelation. Smitten by Charles she may have been, but she was smitten, too, by the new respect she was being shown by aristos who, up to this point, looked down their noses at her. Deceit: Lord and Lady Tryon with their children. In London, Kanga threw herself into the party circuit, mixing with the movers and shakers. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, her life, with four lovely children and a peer for a husband, seemed effortless and easy. But behind closed doors, she was grafting away at making money - buying, refurbishing and selling property, and then branching out into the fashion business. Each time she wanted to plug something, she would discreetly let slip a nugget of gossip. Did we know that her nickname Kanga came from HRH's very own lips? Or that he'd labelled her 'the only woman who ever understood me'. Then there was Charles's 'private' visit to her parental home in Melbourne that became common knowledge. A coincidence, indeed, that the paparazzi, alerted by anonymous phone calls, were outside the house on that very night. Finally, it emerged Kanga was in possession of a number of letters from HRH. Their content was never revealed, but if people were to imply they were love letters, what harm could there be in that? She knew what she was doing. For when it came time for her to set up her stall in Beauchamp Place, one of London's smartest addresses, she had no hesitation in calling her fashion business Kanga. It was as good as hanging 'by Royal appointment' over the door. The customers flocked in, despite the barely veiled titters in the fashion industry - from where they stood, there was little class or style attached to Kanga creations. Yet I watched her blithely sell an astonishingly awful dress, in lightweight, crushproof material that no couture house would touch with a bargepole, for a colossal sum to a highly impressionable young lady. Kanga had brass neck all right. But even then there was a gap, a painful one, between the public and private persona of Lady Tryon. She had given herself to the Prince of Wales and he had loved her, for however brief a time, but the rules of the game were such that she couldn't shout this great triumph from the rooftops. Camilla, her rival, understood this instinctively - as one would, when one's greatgrandmother had had an affair with another Prince of Wales. Kanga was from very different stock and bottling it up, both the triumph of love and the loss of it to a rival, affected her deeply. As the years wore on, she deemed her marriage to be loveless, although her husband was clearly devoted to his children. And, as the gap between them widened, her health took a series of alarming downward lurches.

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