A letter from the Queen urges her son to divorce, as the breakdown of Charles and Diana’s marriage plays out in public. Elsewhere, violence and instability dominate headlines, from a deadly crackdown in Romania as Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime begins to collapse, to scenes of chaos in Panama as its leader goes on the run from US troops. In finance, scandals run into the billions: a Wall Street grandee is exposed at the centre of a vast fraud, while bankers at Goldman Sachs make fortunes betting against the housing market. Dive into a week of power, protest and reckoning, as seen on The Independent’s front pages.
