Royal Watch: The future king of England...

Royal Watch: The future king of England and his security platoon started boarding school Monday. Police say Prince William, 8, will have 18 police officers watching over him 24 hours a day at the exclusive Ludgrove School near Wokingham, 15 miles west of London. The son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana will be known among his peers as a “squit,” the nickname for first-year boys at the school.

Record Watch: The team that guided the light plane Voyager on a globe-circling flight is preparing to break the 528.33-m.p.h. speed record for piston-driven airplanes. The twin-engine Pond Racer will have its first test flight in mid-October in Mojave. In 1986, plane designer Burt Rutan’s Voyager made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world with Rutan’s brother Dick and pilot Jeana Yeager aboard.

Watch This: John F. Kennedy Jr. drew the loudest cheers among Kennedy watchers when he turned and waved to the crowd Saturday at the Centerville, Mass., wedding of his cousin, Kara Kennedy, to Washington, D.C., architect Michael Allen. After the ceremony, Ted and Joan Kennedy, the divorced parents of the bride, stood hand-in-hand on the church steps next to the newlyweds.

Poems in the Key of Life: Barbara Sigmund, daughter of Rep. Lindy Boggs (D-La.) and the late congressman Hale Boggs, is fighting personal tragedy by publishing a book of poetry and prose called “An Unfinished Life: Diary of a Fatal Illness and Other Works.” Cancer cost Sigmund her left eye eight years ago, and has reappeared behind her right eye. Sigmund, 51, is known for her wit and her trademark fashion-coordinated eye patch. She upheld the Boggs political tradition by serving as mayor of Princeton and running for governor of New Jersey, which she lost.