Queen Elizabeth II was renowned for her determined inscrutability in an era of telling all. Indeed, the mask of the monarch rarely slipped during the more than 70 years she reigned.
held firm above all that, keeping her regal composure. She could do nothing to change this new level of attention, and she certainly did nothing to encourage it, but her family lacked her iron discipline. They met the moment by providing a rich melodrama of their own making., the central figure, bathed in the same relentless flash photography as the others, while remaining glacially aloof.
To achieve that level of fame was an unforgivable offense by the rules of the palace, but they were helpless to counter it. Diana’s celebrity was of an entirely new and different quality: The whole world felt on intimate terms with her. She smashed her way out of the hermetic royal protocols. She bared her tortured soul. She didn’t need to point up the apparent contrast between herself and the queen: Vulnerable young victim versus ice-cold matriarch.
The early years of her reign were hard on her. In 1957, when she was thirty-one years old and had been queen for five years, she fell under the scrutiny of James Pope-Hennessy, who was writing a biography of her father’s mother, the cold-blooded Teutonic matriarch Queen Mary.Pope-Hennessy’s description of the young queen never surfaced at the time. It was unearthed by the royal historian Hugo Vickers and published in his 2018 book,.
Philip himself had never quite felt part of the system. But he had made a fundamental error: The core quality of the brandmajesty. It was an exact word suggesting a stature that was a little short of being divine – a sort of secular papacy expressing grace and authority in partnership. The origin was medieval. The Tudors struggled to shake off Rome as God’s throne on earth and match it with a native equal, and it could only be done by elevating the monarch as a demi-god.
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