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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
There was one thing I couldn't understand about public reaction. Why did they expect the Queen to return to Buckingham Palace and make speaches to the public rather than stay at Balmoral with her grandsons who had just lost their mother? I'd have been more disappointed in her if she had abandoned her family for the sake of a public appearance. The press reports that she didn't care how the public felt were unfair. They'd have had more of a go at her if she had appeared not to care about how William and Harry felt. She couldn't have won at that time whatever she did but I believe she did do the right thing.
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I think most people thought parading her grandchildren before the world's press, at a church service hours after the event, where their Mother's death wasn't even mentioned in passing never mind prayer, wasn't how most grannies would have protected their grandchildren.
However she did abandon protocol, and caved in to public pressure by returning to London the day before the funeral and gave that live, clipped, cringeworthy broadcast.
Remember this is the woman who is so devoted to duty that she has never cried in public....except at the decommissioning of her royal yacht Britannia.
Very telling.