THE world was always going to be a different place without her. Gone was the sun the royal family revolved around and they were left navigating their way through a new reality without her guiding hand. And there’s no denying it: a little of the sheen that hovered around The Firm faded when the frail, yet formidable, queen slipped away.
Charles, still sullied by a long-ago scandal, is now king and while people have generally adopted a let’s-wait-and-see attitude, he’ll never have the allure of his mother. Prince William is now the heir and the focus will be more on him – younger, better looking, more in touch with modern life – as the family forges their way into the future.
And Harry, oh Harry. It’s easy to imagine his grandmother rolling in her grave in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. She’d been gone only three months when the bomb of his and Meghan’s Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan, dropped. All hope of a more united royal family, joined in grief and eager to mend bridges in
