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The Queen’s darkest hour: the day Her Majesty came back from the brink
It was Friday, September 5, 1997, the day before Princess Dianas funeral, and the mood outside Londons St Jamess Palace was sombre and tense, lapsing into anger towards the Queen.Standing among the British people at the end of a long week in London, I could feel the palpable emotion gripping the crowd.
One woman explained it to me this way: “we don’t hate the Queen but we love Prince Diana. She was our princess and we want to know the Queen cares and is in mourning too.”
In the days since, I and…
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