The dreadful emotional outpourings that we are continually subjected to - the grown men crying on TV when the make a cake or a pot, the people who get old stuff professionally repaired for free then weep emotionally. I think it started really with Princess Diana's death - the Queen of Our Hearts or some such as spouted by Tony Blair. Now we have people on Twitter telling dead people how much they are loved and flowers tied to railings and emotional outpourings for people we don't know. All whipped up into a frenzy of fake emotion. I don't know about the Queen probably having been a little embarrassed - the Duke of Wellington would have been disgusted (I believe he put a stop to the fashion for men to weep in public like ancient Greeks!).
Perhaps the lengthy mourning is for the Last Night Of The Poms?
Exactly
Great piece that resonates soundly with this Brit.
The dreadful emotional outpourings that we are continually subjected to - the grown men crying on TV when the make a cake or a pot, the people who get old stuff professionally repaired for free then weep emotionally. I think it started really with Princess Diana's death - the Queen of Our Hearts or some such as spouted by Tony Blair. Now we have people on Twitter telling dead people how much they are loved and flowers tied to railings and emotional outpourings for people we don't know. All whipped up into a frenzy of fake emotion. I don't know about the Queen probably having been a little embarrassed - the Duke of Wellington would have been disgusted (I believe he put a stop to the fashion for men to weep in public like ancient Greeks!).
I got a little tearful reading your comment, but I have to agree.
Manly tears or too much oestrogen in the water tears?
Good article. Sums up own views on this too.
If my mind ever wanders towards republicanism, I think of the words 'President Blair' and am instantly cured.