Ransom & The Queen Flashcards
Threat to the Queen
“We’re in danger of losing too much that is good about this country as it is.”
Diana
“Queen of people’s hearts.”
“people’s princess…”
Modernisation (TQ)
“… set an ambitious course to modernise this country.”
“A week ago, you were the great moderniser!”
Change (TQ)
“There’s been a change, a shift in values.”
“Royal protocol is being swept aside en masse today.”
“The Queen cannot be expected to change.”
Grief (TQ)
“restrained grief, and sober, private mourning.”
“Nowadays people want glamour and tears, the grand performance.”
Resistance to change (TQ)
“It’s vital you hold firm; stick to your guns.”
Change and Identity (R)
“[Priam] is coming home… as a man remade.”
Change (R)
“And perhaps, because it is unexpected, it may appeal to him: the chance to break free of the obligation of being always the hero…”
Stories and mortality (R)
“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man’s acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of a story.”
Tradition and Duty (R)
“He is obliged, in his role as king, to think of the king’s sacred body…”
Queen’s sovereignty
“You don’t get dictated to.”
Challenge to monarchy (Q)
“One in four are now in favour of abolishing the monarchy altogether.”
Priam’s humility
“an ordinary man, a father.”
Priam legacy
“The image I mean to leave is a living one.”
