Royal family’s cancer diagnoses echo the ‘annus horribilis’
by Heather Stewart from World news | The Guardian on (#6KJ1J)
Traumas and revelations of the past 12 months bring to mind the late Queen's speech from 1992
When the late Queen stood up to give a speech marking 40 years on the throne, in June 1992, she conceded to the assembled dignitaries, and the watching nation,that her family had had an annus horribilis".
The phrase came to be remembered as an acknowledgment that even the staunchly dutiful monarch, who rarely betrayed emotion, had felt the cumulative effects of a series of blows.
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