Queen Elizabeth Was Secretly Devastated By Her Children's Divorces: 'Much More Than She Let On'
perezhilton.comAll those royal divorces may be old news, but the impact they made on Queen Elizabeth was kept pretty quiet.
The longest-reigning British monarch has always been a “Keep Calm and Carry On” kinda gal. Over 70 years of queendom, there have been a lot of scandals (see: The Crown), but she tended to meet them with cool stoicism.
In public, at least. Related: Prince Andrew’s Secret Nighttime Visits To Mum To Discuss Sexual Assault Lawsuit… A new biography, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman, reveals Elizabeth’s private pain during 1992, aka her “annus horribilis.” That year featured the dissolution of three of her children’s marriages: Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips, and most famously of course, Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
In an excerpt obtained by People, Hardman wrote: A former staffer dished to the author: TBH, while divorce is obviously pretty common among the commoners, we have to agree the Royal Family’s situation was a statistical anomaly.
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