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...Sometimes it’s hard for Fox, sitting in that little office, to know what 6,000 people want,” proclaimed Mather House Council Chair Charles L. Diana ’78 at the time. “I think the message is clear after the demonstrations...
...sister, Princess Margaret, who died at age 71 in February, and mother, who died Easter weekend at 101. Perhaps, after the throngs that lined London's streets for the Queen Mother's funeral, it also represents a surprised rediscovery that the royal family-not just charismatic black sheep Diana, but its dutiful core-has something to offer. Yet most of all it is respect for Elizabeth, as someone who has fulfilled every task expected of her. In 50 years, she has undertaken 251 official overseas visits to 128 different countries, launched 17 ships, sat for 120 portraits, conferred...
...culture of celebrity," says John Baxendale, a cultural historian at Sheffield Hallam University. The royals could not have remained Victorian icons; they had to find their footing in a media age. But the progress they made was undermined by scandal, especially through the mutual loathing of Charles and Diana. The public snapped it up, ogling the juicy parts while clucking disapprovingly about the "terrible decline in standards." This was a peril mainly for Elizabeth's offspring. She herself never cheapened the brand. In fact, courtiers often wished she was not so reticent and had a greater sense of the touching...
...combination of introversion and rigidity came as close as anything has to destroying her reign. The catalyst was the death of Diana, whose publicity-soaked campaign to become Queen of people's hearts resonated on levels Elizabeth had never contemplated. Courtiers could not initially persuade the Queen to fly the royal standard at Buckingham Palace at half-mast (it had not been lowered when her father the King died) or to make any convincingly warm gesture toward the memory of Diana-who had been leaking viciously against the Windsors for years. Angry crowds, furious commentators and smart advisers persuaded Elizabeth...
...watershed. Elizabeth would never try to touch people on the primal level Diana reached, but she recognized times had changed. No one expects an instinctively conservative woman in her seventies to overhaul radically her job of 50 years, which leaves those who want to reform or abolish it in an awkward fix. The Jubilee has prompted various suggestions for change: among them, that she should retire and that a system for picking an elected president be devised. But the republicans have no real leverage. For all its vicissitudes, the monarchy remains shockingly popular-70% prefer it over a republic...