Diana wins - from the grave

Rod Liddle says the Queen has reason to weep. So does Iain Duncan Smith. The values of the late Princess are imperilling both the monarchy and the Tory party

CAUGHT on camera at a Remembrance service last week, Queen Elizabeth appeared, rather unexpectedly, to be crying.

It was quite a shocking thing to behold: I had never seen our Queen cry before.

Perhaps it was just the cold, dank weather getting to her, biting into her bones. Or maybe it was another of those confused and ill-advised attempts to be modern, something imposed upon her by her Blairite PR people.

Crying is certainly the modern thing to do - as is, of course, hugging and touching and being, you know, really, really real. Poor, dead Diana cried and hugged and touched at the drop of a hat, or the opening of a children's hospital ward, at least - and she's officially now one of our greatest ever Britons, so there you are. Maybe before the service the PR people said, `Go on, Ma'am, let yourself go; you'll feel better for it, love.

Think of Princess Di.' And so she cried.(Continue Reading)

 

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