Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charles' private promises were not honored. Diana told her favorite reporter, Richard Kay of the Daily Mail, that she had given the royals everything they wanted, "and they are still not satisfied. Now they are playing Ping-Pong with me." The palace lofted another ping, announcing that the Queen wished that discussions "be conducted privately and amicably...
...describes the latest chapter in the Waleses' war from Diana's viewpoint. Pressured by his exasperated parents, Charles wrote his wife, implying that she was dragging her feet on the divorce that the Queen had urged upon them in December. Diana proposed a meeting at St. James's Palace. The Waleses were for once alone together. Charles' aides wanted a stenographer present but bowed to Diana's request for privacy. After what she claims is an agreement--though not on the financial settlement--she called the Queen and then Atkinson to make the announcement. She claims that Charles had agreed...
...said with certainty: Diana will go on being famous. She will also probably continue some version of what she is supremely good at: working with disadvantaged or afflicted people. She knows this is her area of strength; that is why she has said she wants to be "queen of people's hearts." Lately, doubtless because of her stressful situation, she has not been very active, at least in the public eye. After the divorce she will need some kind of channel for her enormous energies. Her detractors never tire of saying that she will end up in Texas or California...
With gestures like that, she became a walking riposte to the palace, with its narrow, dated code of royal behavior. As has been pointed out many times, she was, if anything, a throwback to the Queen Mother, with her common touch and effortless rapport with ordinary people. When senior courtiers tried to limit Diana or downgrade her, they just looked pompous...
...royals must be acceptable, if not popular. The ubiquitous royal commentator Brian Hoey puts it this way: "Even though they were both guilty, all the blame in the relationship goes to Camilla. The people of Britain will never, ever forgive her, and that's why she will never become Queen. If Charles decides to marry her, he will no doubt lose the throne. Even though constitutionally nothing prevents him, the success of the monarchy depends upon the goodwill of the people...