Elizabeth- the Queen and the Crown by Sarah Gristwood

Author:Sarah Gristwood [Gristwood, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911595847
Publisher: Pavilion Books

The 1969 fly-on-the-wall documentary Royal Family saw cameras follow the royals for several months as they went about their daily business. Inevitably, however, scenes like this family lunch at Windsor can seem rather stilted.

The consciously ordinary atmosphere of the barbecue, the stodginess of clothes and tastes, must have seemed reassuring. But was it perhaps a little disappointing, too? Prince Philip believed that if people could see their head of state and her close family ‘as individuals, as people, I think it makes it much easier for them to accept the system.’ He was all against the idea of any ‘remoteness or majesty’ in the people’s view of their monarchy. But many others disagreed. Walter Bagehot, writing of the monarchy a century earlier, had said ‘We must not let in daylight upon magic,’ and even David Attenborough, one of Royal Family’s producers, believed they would suffer from the loss of mystique.

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