Interesting comments and defense of the British "queen/prince/princess" thing. Still, from this side of the ocean it seems "quite beyond the bounds of logic" and the crass and insensitive remarks re. Diana are in extremely poor taste.
"If she is guilty of poor judgment it is solely in the case of that press whore, Diana, who made the masses her own while executing some sort of confused agenda quite beyond the bounds of logic. Mercifully, a lucky accident solved the Queen’s dilemma."
We have what's supposedly a free press; the freedom seems mainly the ability to pander to whichever slot of the public it thinks might be interested in buying its pages...
The Queen still represents a place somewhere apart from money, politics and the general dumbing down of our society. The strange thing is that she still feels willing to keep on truckin' when, in reality, she could simply pull the plug on all the back-biters and move somewhere with a better clime, spend the rest of her days doing whatever
she feels like doing... And no, Robert, I don't think she has anything to do with celebrity culture: celebs are of the cheap moment whereas royalty is about history.
I guess that's what it means to be born to the task: you stick in at it and do your duty come what may. That's a difference between monarchy and elected politicians.
Rob C
