Prince Charles and Princess Diana, showing no effects from her fainting spell Tuesday at Vancouver's Expo 86, left late yesterday afternoon for Osaka, Japan, where they'll do a five-day tour. Four hours after fainting, Diana joined her husband at a formal dinner, where she ate a full share of red snapper braised in spinach with parsley and apple sauce. Afterward, she applauded performing breakdancers and chatted amiably with British Columbian children invited to the dinner honoring various special achievements.
Joking about the fainting incident, Charles told the diners: "It is actually due to the extremely advantageous conditions that pertain in British Columbia - the weather and the general fertile conditions, which have ensured she is about to have septuplets, which is really why she fainted." (Pause.) ''It's not actually true," a smiling Charles added quickly. A spokesman attributed Diana's fainting to a busy schedule and the wool suit she wore on an unexpectedly warm day.