Volume 44, Number 15 · October 9, 1997
Royal Tragedy
By Ian Buruma
Once again a British queen was accused of remaining selfishly in Balmoral. 'Come out and cry with your people!' the British tabloids screamed in the week after Diana's death, when the House of Windsor was holed up in the Scottish Highlands, while Diana fever mounted everywhere else. And the Queen came down to London, and she looked stunned by what she saw.
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