What would've happened if the monarchy didn't raise the flag to half mast, see the flowers for Diana at the gate exc... A lot of people wanted to abolish the monarchy before the Queen started showing respect for Diana's death.
What would've happened if the monarchy didn't raise the flag to half mast, see the flowers for Diana at the gate exc... A lot of people wanted to abolish the monarchy before the Queen started showing respect for Diana's death.
What would've happened if the monarchy didn't raise the flag to half mast, see the flowers for Diana at the gate exc... A lot of people wanted to abolish the monarchy before the Queen started showing respect for Diana's death.
By and large what people seemed to completely ignore was what the Queen actually was doing: providing family support at Balmoral. Couple that with an absolutely top notch publicity campaign in the years before by Diana and the effects of royal protocall and you get something being blown far out of proportion to what actually happened. (Admittedly the fact that I belong to that ever increasing generation of people who have no memories of that time may be colouring this PoV)
As it was, it was the Union Jack that was flown on the day of the funeral (the first time BTW that a flag other than the Royal Standard was ever flown at Buckingham Palace) and only then. Indeed it was more the Queen's TV message that calmed people that anything else.
From what we know of her, I highly doubt that the Queen would have done nothing once the sheer magnitude of public opinion became apparent, so the most that could change would be a delay in matters, which would lead to a longer period of monarchical gloom, but would pass in time.
In the unlikely event that it even got to the stage of organisition a referrendum on the monarchy, which requires a much longer burn on the high levels of vitriol, I think the situation is more likely to Tarnish Diana's reputation than the monarchy's. If the entire argument is basically built around the treatment of Diana, with the more sordid details being aired much earlier than they were.
Ah yes, the manufactured grief of a nation. It’s worth noting that when the funeral was shown live and uninterrupted on all the major television channels, television ratings showed that less than a quarter of the nation even bothered to watch.
It was that song that did it for me; if she wasn't already dead I'd have happily gone and shot her and Elton John after hearing that fucking song for the umpteenth time!Whilst I watched the funeral the bombardment of it on the news infuriated me.
Ah yes, the manufactured grief of a nation. It’s worth noting that when the funeral was shown live and uninterrupted on all the major television channels, television ratings showed that less than a quarter of the nation even bothered to watch.
Indeed. And given the invovlement of the press in her death, not to mention the ways that they hounded her for years, I have always wondered if the public anger was intentionally directed onto the royal family as a way of directing it away from the press themselves.
Indeed. And given the invovlement of the press in her death, not to mention the ways that they hounded her for years, I have always wondered if the public anger was intentionally directed onto the royal family as a way of directing it away from the press themselves.
Personally I never watched the funeral, but the one thing I remember about that day was that pretty much everywhere in the UK was closed!! Supermarkets, offices etc all had at least a half day off so they could watch it.
As a nation we were being forced to grieve for a woman we were being told that we all cared about and would miss ... I hate when the press insists we have feelings that we don't. Very similar to the royal wedding and the queens aniversary ... well done and all that but really I don't need the press trying to brainwash me that I care !!!
It was that song that did it for me; if he wasn't already dead I'd have happily gone and shot her and Elton John after hearing that fucking song for the umpteenth time!
Indeed. And given the invovlement of the press in her death, not to mention the ways that they hounded her for years, I have always wondered if the public anger was intentionally directed onto the royal family as a way of directing it away from the press themselves.
Personally I never watched the funeral, but the one thing I remember about that day was that pretty much everywhere in the UK was closed!! Supermarkets, offices etc all had at least a half day off so they could watch it.
Whilst I watched the funeral the bombardment of it on the news infuriated me.
On the day she died, I came downstairs in the morning, got some breakfast and sat down to watch some cartoons whilst eating, all the cartoon channels on sky were not working, went to discovery etc, not showing anything, all were saying 'go to sky news'. So I went to sky news.
"Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed died this morning in a car crash in Paris..."
My reaction
"Oh thats a shame." *puts on the animated Transformers movie*
Typos, should ave said 'she'.You must be confusing Sir Elton John with someone else. As far as I know, the rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated.
I feel your pain I had the same problem with JFK's assassination and Winston Churchill's funeral.
Oh, just for the record, I don't particularly like the monarchy, but I'm not a republican because I've yet to hear anyone come up with a system better than what we've got at the moment.