The horrible year in question was 1992
, when the Prince and Princess of Wales were at war, the Duke and Duchess of York separated and Windsor Castle was ravaged by fire. Pictured is The Queen and the Duke of Edinburghl in Paris on June 10, 1992 during a state visit in France.
The 1980s had started terrifyingly for her. On June 13 1981, during the Trooping the Colour ceremony, a teenage boy appeared from the crowd and fired six shots at the Queen as she rode by. Her horse reared, but she brought it back under control and carried on, displaying an iron self-discipline as troopers leaped upon the gunman.
Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie had caught the public mood to perfection as he married Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral, when he said the union was “the stuff of which fairy tales are made”.on June 21. The succession to the throne was secure, and the Queen had a grandson she adored.
Eventually, Fagan asked for a cigarette, and staff finally responded to her call. The incident caused ructions. It was an astonishing and deeply worrying breach of security. There was a brief moment of respite for the family with the wedding of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson on July 23 1986, but by decade’s end, it was clear that their marriage, too, was doomed.
But by then, the apparently dysfunctional emotional lives of the younger Royals had seriously undermined the family’s standing in the country. It quickly became apparent that Diana had co-operated fully with Morton, and the mystique that had always been essential to the Royal Family was gone forever. Four days after the fire, she faced her critics head-on in a speech at The Guildhall, with what amounted to a plea for an end to the savage criticism, and a pledge to reform the monarchy.Her voice was hoarse because of a heavy cold, but the emotional battering she had taken over the previous months may have played a part in her tone, too.“In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an ‘Annus Horribilis’. I suspect that I am not alone in thinking it so.
“But we are all part of the same fabric of our national society and that scrutiny, by one part of another, can be just as effective if it is made with a touch of gentleness, good humour and understanding.”
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