Leadership Flashcards
Diana
“I’d like to be the queen of people’s hearts” (Diana)
Diana proved she “needed no royal title to generate her particular brand of magic.”
Diana proved she “needed no royal title to generate her particular brand of magic.”
The queen -
“To advise and warn the government of the day.”
“You’re the sovereign, the head of state.” (Phillip) – also stag hunting is a rich people sport.
“You must reassert your authority.”
Tony Blair is at risk of suffering the political fate of fragile leadership – “it will happen, Mr Blair, quite suddenly and without warning”
“the Queen has responded to criticism that the Royal Family is not engaged.” – the press
Priam - Familial sacrifice Priam has needed to make as a leader
‘asked to stand…at a kingly distance from the human, which in [his] kingly role…[he] can have no part in’
Removed from paternal experiences - Children were
merely “Formal and symbolic”
whose grief is assailed by intimate moments with her children as she recalls
‘Troilus was very late in walking…I was in labour for eighteen hours with Hector’
Priam cannot echo his wife’s grief
have not been ‘in his sphere’ and he is even ‘unnerved’ by them.
“Something impossible. Something new”
PRIAM
What does Priam think defines him?
“Silent, not speech is what defines him as a [disciplined] king”
