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Kindergarten 2 flowers for diana6/25/2023 Her first childhood home, Park House, was a short drive from Sandringham, the Queen’s country home, where Diana spent an unhappy portion of many unhappy Christmas mornings. She was the daughter of an earl who lived in Althorp, a grand pile located on a 13,000-acre estate, the Spencer family’s home since 1508. For someone joining the family at the height of the punk movement’s hatred of the monarchy, she shouldn’t have been such an immediate hit. But then, just a year into the new and potentially anti-monarchist decade: Diana. The album was a working-class yelp of frustration at the bollocks, that is to say the rubbish, all the things that weren’t working in England-the ridiculous Royal Family very much among them. God save the queen The fascist regime They made you a moron A potential H bomb God save the queen She ain’t no human being And there’s no future In England’s dreaming Don’t be told what you want, you want They wore Stuff the Jubilee badges, and the same year, the Sex Pistols delivered the imperishable Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, with its famous anthem, “God Save the Queen”: To the young, in the midst of the punk movement and a profound sense of alienation from the country’s elite, she represented something very different. To them she represented courage, continuity, and endurance. In 1977, the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee, which touched the hearts of many Britons, especially those who had been young during the Blitz. That decade had been a time of strikes and large-scale unemployment, and young people were disillusioned with many things, not least of them the notion of a family of magical creatures who must be carted around in golden carriages at government expense. She signed up in 1981, when the grim realities of the 1970s showed no sign of abating. For Harry, the situation is evolving.ĭiana joined the Royal Family when the operation was at a low ebb and somewhat imperiled. Now he is a Californian with a Spotify deal, charged with thinking up some podcasts, which could be a heavy lift. Once, he led men into battle, as his forebears had done for generations. Now, however, he is like Antonio: tempest-tossed and thrown up upon the wide beaches of the brave new world. Before he met Meghan, he was a prince of Europe-almost a crown prince-a young man whose life was part of a continuation from Excalibur to Afghanistan, where he fought with valor in the manner of Prince Hal finding within himself Henry V. When Harry was allowed into the conversation, he sat beside his wife looking like he’d been shot from a cannon. In the couple’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan looked poised and thoughtful, and managed to make her series of shocking revelations seem reluctantly tendered, a hostile witness having the terrible truth pulled out of her, much more in sorrow than in anger.
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