Ben Pimlott
Ben Pimlott
Benjamin John Pimlott FBA, known as Ben Pimlott, was a British historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography...
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That notion, that idea that divorce is linked to disgrace, which is effectively what Edward VIII is seen to have chosen, is riven deep in the Windsor royal family and certainly affected the Queen Mother and the Queen in her attitude, and so I think there is something very deep there, and there is no doubt that the sense of permanence of the royal family was badly shaken by that incident,
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The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise.
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The test for the media is whether it can avoid destroying him in the way it contributed to her death,
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I don't think anybody, even Diana's closest friends ... would regard what happened ... after the crash as anything other than a hysterical reaction. It was way, way over the top.
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She was astonishingly beautiful as a young woman. She was the Princess Diana of her age,
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Like Diana, she had a twinkle in her eye and a lot of rapport with the public.