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WHO

influences WHOM

10 years after?

10 YEARS LATER...

Myself, I think a lot of nonsense is talked about the Queen being 'out-weighed' by others..

WHO

INFLUENCES

THIS 18 Part 1 of "THE TEN YEAR MILESTONE OF MARRIAGE," written to mark the tenth anniversary of the Queen's Philip

wedding to

Prince

Anne Edwards's tribute to the Queen's determined personality may lead to conclusions which not everyone will endorso

but they are certain to form a basis of fierce discussion,

FOR 10 years I

watched her close-

ly. And now, as

WHOM?

by Anne Edwards

Over and over again

the 10-year milestone of last Remembrance Day-stand- Insist. her marriage goes ing in a biting cast wind with those who meet her socially, by, I give it as my muscular control of a sergeant who supply her clothes or verdict that the general major..

the roulike back and rigid who serve her at banquets, of

ly accepted portrait of Too often we are told about the Queen is totally out the way blue eyes sparkle, ton seldom about the way they of focus.

can turn to a look of stemness. It is the sentimental fashion to pleture the Queen as a gentle

This is not just a private opinion, it is reinforced by everyone I have talked to who works with her on the

job.

To

me the new portrait la both more attractive and pro- fessional, then the old.

In

bird beating its wings against the bars of a golden cage. fact it is she who insists that the cage to thern-and strong.

Of course, she is all that they say charming, gracious,

unchanging nura in น world worried. stiff by

changing too fast.

Protocol

100 much

AND FINALLY there

1s the Impression around

Drawn

by

ROBB

household goods are warned

that the Queen longs have been allowed to see this and threw them not at the apen off, hauled on to the carpet, or

for a more relaxed np- elde of her are not her own, but at the Press photographers, evan reprimanded by her proach to royalty. In fact, but the French and the Amerl- the Queen blushed scarlet. Majesty herself if they speak to she will not hear of it, the Press

Her own way

rr Is the general den that the Queen is much Influenced in her choice

She clings to the protocol and precedence and pomp as part of the divinity that hedges a king, and leaves to Prince Philip the casy-going mateyness. Compare these two stories;

The first concerns

cans, who, of course, make far Icas formal arrangements.

If today too many people underplay the guts she pula Into the lob, at any rate her husband

Soon after she was engaged she took him with her for a week of official duties. One afternoon, while they were going round a hospital, Prince Philip noticed that the girl at his aide suddenly went very white from heat and exhaustion.

At the Louvre she was jostled and shoved by milling celebri- never har. - ties. But to sÖNGCODE who epologised for the crush she sald tactfully: "You don't Prince know how wonderfully different

At home of clothes by her hus Philip in New York. Wandering all this is to me.

up to a group of Journalists he cannot even buy my cwn nows womanly, radiant, Hut she is band's more worldly taste.

dropped So much is written about her so tough, proud, determined,

into easy chat with paper." sweet expression and radiant and, on occasion as unbending I have it on the highest them. smile. I have watched her

puthority that "Prince Philip when the famous smile fades;

doesn't know a peplum from his "Tell us, sir," said an Ameri- and in its place is a far more How else could she do the foot," I doubt

would man, "are you in favour of on atomic in- interesting face-a keen, quest- fob-and do it so well?

dream of criticising her pro- freer exchange

our two ing look like Queen Mary's.

Rodlike back

SO MUCH is said about her

slender, fragile figure bending under its burden of State, but I have watched her often-as on

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On this determined ttle fessional choice, and I know no formalion between person few people have much dress designer would dure. influence. And when she gives way, as she did last week on the deb issue, it is only when the is sure she is right, and even then after prolonged rear guard fighting.

No risks

IT IS the general idea

countries?! Showered with advice from Prince Philip turned to him: every fashion journal in every "Brother," he said, "You're country, the Queen goes her asking me?" own way, chooses what she likes, and brooks no argument.

She decides the colour, the style, what hat, shoes, and bag she will wear with it, what jewels she will wear with it, whether in fact she will wear it

at all on the occasion for which $1 WIS

Dignity

THE SECOND concerns the Queen in her own home, A Palace official she had known anet she

Always polite

The procession stopped and she was led behind a pillar, Anyone else would have falated, IN AMERICA Unero were but somehow she pulled herscit 12 enchanting minutes together. Back in Londen, Prince when the TV cameras Philip commented to a friend: were on the Queen "I had never realised her job and she didn't know it. "She was Uke that,” He thought for sat there eating, drinking, a moment and then added: laughing, and having fun," said was like talding the middle

"It

a man who saw it. "She watch on a very dirty night and dropped her napkin and nearly having to stay on the bridge bumped her head on the waiter indeanitely."

who picked it up. She was vivacious woman at a dinner party and doing well."

It's that single-minded drive of hers which makes me feel that in this little Queen we may making of the

Those who long for this kind have the

Sho

MONDAY The happy compromise

that a set of Iddy- duddies are surrounding

designed, or whether was a child was talking to her of spontaneous picture here greatest.

the should remember that, like ail the Queen and running hups she won't ditch the with one arm leaning on ner. Nothing could be further whole outfit in favour of an old mantelpiece. Suddenly she broke disciplinarians, the Queen begins one which he prefers. : off to ask: "Are you Ured, Cal with herself. She may Insist that trom the truth. She runs

onel Smith?" "No, ma'am," he all tradespeople bow out back- tliem

She decided on a style she said. "Why?" "Because I think," wards, but she is never anything It is not they who indst on liked 10 years ago and has worn she said, “that you should stand but utterly polite to them, her speeches being rend, but she it ever since. In a decade when up straight when you are talk- may not show she's having fun, herself. Fiercely protecting the fashion history has. never in to me."

but she never shows bad tem- diguity of the monarchy, she changed more swiftly, and her

pers, "Don't get so annoyed, will not risk an impromptu subjects have tumbled from Those who criticise the for- Philip," she'll say, putting a hand on her hus- speech, an off-beat, off-the-cut New Looks to A lines and from muin of dignity which she im- restraining

that her own band's arm. rumark, a sudden drying-up, or Tulip dresses to Sacks, the poses know even an aside that could make Queen has done little more private personality is so win-

And, if she is never impul- a fool of majesty,

than alter her hair parting from ning. The few personal friends

with whom she allows herself to sive, she also never makes It is the general Idea that her side to centre.

can relax emphasise that she

blob. Press Office mistakenly blocks

It explains why, when all personal information to the But what she has achieved it be delightfully informal, Oddly Prince Philip ricked up a newspapers.

she who a signature in fashion, and on enough the only, people who handful. of nuts at Gibraltar

It 13

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