Volume 44, Number 19 · December 4, 1997
A Nice German Lady
By James Fenton
The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II
by Ben Pimlott
John Wiley, 651 pp., $30.00
The Royals
by Kitty Kelley
Warner Books, 547 pp., $27.00
Few in Britain will forget the events of the week following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales—from the early Sunday morning bulletins of her accident to her lake isle interment at Althorp the next Saturday, after a cross-country funeral procession to rival that of Eleanor of Castile (1290). The court being stricken dumb, it fell to our foreign secretary, Robin Cook, to announce the news of the car crash from Beijing. That was the first anomaly in a week that blended atavism with novelty, a week that at times seemed to presage revolution of a sort.
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