How did we get to RoyalBaby? Vogue writer Elise Taylor unpacks.
blared “A Baby Makes the British Seem Somewhat Unbritish: A Reticent People Is Not Reticent When It Is a Question of Royal Offspring.” But part of it was the attitude of duty-conscious Elizabeth. “Why does everyone make such fuss? I am not the only woman who is going to have a baby,” she reportedly said pregnant with Charles.
But by the ’80s, the mood was different. Punk and disillusion swept the land. The formality enshrouding the monarchy seemed out of date, out of touch, and out of place. “God Save the Queen” was not the national anthem, but the Sex Pistols’ song— “God save the queen/She’s not a human being/and there’s no future/In England’s dreaming.”. She was warm. She was friendly. She’d go right up to barriers and touch people, while other royals waved from a distance.
The unprecedented openness was what Britain needed. “For this weary nation, struggling with no visible sign of success against the currents of economic decline, a pregnant princess will be a vivid symbol of the continuity of the monarchy, with its links to the past and its promise of at least one element of stability in the future,”
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