Prince Philip tried to help Princess Diana, too, but she didn’t get the message of “Life is like this, stay tough.” Admittedly, Charles is quite a trial for everyone, it seems. It’s impossible for the present generation to understand what life was like for their parents or grandparents who lived through the European turmoil of the World Wars and everything else.
Our generation (I’m about to be 46) may see the End of the World as We Know It. If the Zombie Apocalypse hits, my grandparents will be my inspiration, but so will people like Elizabeth and Philip. You keep your values, you keep your standards, you eat grits and gravy and kudzu, if that’s what it takes.
You’re darned right. The WW II generation sacrificed in ways we can’t imagine.
I can’t say I’m a Diana fan. It’s inescapably true that she was “done wrong”, as the saying goes, but she was a manipulator, and she had problems with the truth. She fed stories to the press that cast her in a glowing light, as the model mother, and then lied about doing so. That “Queen of Hearts” stuff was calculated.
My parents lived in England at the time of the coronation. My mother always said she felt sorry for Prince Charles. She said she remembered seeing the Queen come back from trips and greet him, a young child, with only a handshake. Mama thought he needed a hug.