Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decade or so after her marriage in 1981, she was mostly known as an immature clotheshorse with a difficult personality--she alienated not only the affections of Prince Charles, but of dozens of royal servants, who started a mass exodus after she arrived at Buckingham Palace. Her major accomplishment was to have two children--not much of an accomplishment considering that she was female...
...1990s. Much of the reason for this change, it seems, came from her need for attention and revenge rather than for the particular cause or charity at hand. Today, one never hears that she manipulated the press in order to make herself look good at the expense of the royal family, and that she timed her appearances to coincide with and upstage important events hosted by the other royals...
...crux of the matter is this: princess consorts, royal non-heirs such as Diana, are the weak archaic links in all royal families, which, except for Sweden, betray a marked preference for male succession. There is therefore a feminist dilemma regarding the behavior of modern princess consorts, not unlike the one that Hillary Clinton faced when her husband was running for president of this country. Essentially, the consort's role must be a supporting one, and always subordinate to both the monarch and the heir...
...princess consort merely marries the prince who will occupy the throne. As such, it is her duty, as the trade-off for great wealth and social prestige, to be discreet. She puts the interests of the royal family, and most certainly the prominence of her husband, before her own. Similarly, a princess is not to be praised for social work--it is to be expected of her. It is not for a princess to seek celebrity, but to lead a life of duty and sacrifice, which was not exactly what Diana...
Nanaho Sawano, a senior in Dunster House, is an implacable royal-watcher. This commentary is the first in a series of three appearing on consecutive Mondays about royalty as a political institution...