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...Majesty, Lacey...
...Majesty, Lacey...
Still, nothing can keep the portrait from coming out a negative. Her Majesty's surest instinct is for what is not done; her habitual expression is the absence of an expression. Her strength, Lacey is driven to argue in an ultimate paradox, is "the absence of a forceful . . . personality...
Scrambling to disguise his and her dilemma, Lacey describes everything colorful that surrounds his royally willed vacuum, from the 15 blue budgerigars she owned as a child to members of the family less addicted to duty: the court scamps. Uncle Edward ("the rogue factor") and his Wally. Sister Margaret and her Peter and her Tony. Even the fairly well-behaved Philip; for with his "compulsion to keep everyone around him laughing," he also favors a style of persuasion, Lacey warns, that "verges on thuggery...
Unlike them, this thoroughly admirable, thoroughly ordinary Queen has no apparent need to be "a modern person in an ancient institution." Does the Age of Me want an archaic model of unquestioning dutifulness and near total self-abnegation? It has one in the woman now on the throne, and Lacey may be correct when, in a last desperate attempt to dramatize his subject, he looks ahead another 25 years and prophesies, "Elizabeth II is made to be an inspiring old Queen." Melvin Maddocks