Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diana are two people who stumbled into a fantasy fervently embraced by millions. She embodied it; he was swept up in it, much against his will. When the so-called fairy tale began, all Charles wanted was more of what he already had: a comfortable life of conscientious royal duty, shooting, polo, painting pictures--and a nice, quiet double standard. But people may never forgive him for puncturing their dream...
...crown sent them forth to conquer the world, and they did. In just a year or so, they rejuvenated the royal family. Nights on television, mornings in the papers, there were pictures that made the rest of the news look meager and soiled: whirling around the dance floor in Australia with Diana's emerald necklace subbing as a headband, kicking up their heels at a White House ball and back home, kissing at a polo match. In her interview last November on the BBC's Panorama program, Diana spoke repeatedly about their effectiveness as a team. Was it intended...
...seems cruel to the rest of the royal family to point out that she did, and has been doing so ever since. The pretty girl became the woman who, in addition to being media magic, was embarking on a voyage of self-discovery. She learned that she could detect and respond to suffering. Increasingly, her public work concentrated on the sick and the troubled. When she offered an aids victim her ungloved hand, she advanced the cause of tolerance immeasurably...
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...
Hell will freeze over before Charles says he knows where anyone is coming from. In matters of semantics alone, the distance between this royal pair is obvious. In any public speaking, he is reticent about personal references. The deficiencies in his upbringing are becoming clearer. In 1994, anxious to present his side of an increasingly difficult separation, he made a TV film and authorized a biography, both by British broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby. Charles cited his distant parents, especially his authoritarian father, for some of his difficulties. Hardly a gentlemanly thing to do, but his point is underscored...