Waugh and Real Life
January 15, 2006
During WWII, when the fate of England was fearfully uncertain, the Princesses Elizabeth (13) and Margaret Rose (9) were slated to be hidden at Madresfield Court, home of the family modelled in Brideshead Revisited, an Evelyn Waugh novel much admired here in its beautifully-scored, John-Mortimer-scripted Granada television version.
It requires an adamant conscience indeed to view the death of the elder Brideshead (Sir Laurence Olivier), or hear Julia's (Diana Quick) recitative on the care and feeding of sin, without some glancing attention to the state of one's soul.
Now Elizabeth II has seen much, much more of life even than the perils of war. Scandals, lurid deaths, royalty and the CoE in free-fall. What does she think? That family don't seem to write memoirs, so we will probably never know.
Link via Kathy Shaidle-recommended Wheat and Weeds.
The question of the royal heirs' wartime safety was the occasion of the Queen Mother Elizabeth's famously-loyal statement of refusal to send them to Canada.
The children could not possibly go without me. I would not leave without the King and the King will not leave under any circumstances.
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