Diana may be beautiful and widely loved, but was also fragile and vulnerable, qualities hardly fit for the royal court, much less in a world blood-thirsty for celebrity private lives.
The queen, however , like it or not, has lived up to her name. As a young woman of 25, while fulfilling her duties in the former colony in Africa, she left her father, a sick King George behind. It was on the African safari news of the King's death arrived. She ascended the ladder to a watch tower a princess, and came down a queen.
50 years later, when Diana's tragic death gave the royal family a hard blow, she was, for the first time in her reign, helpless. By the creek she was stranded by, out of the fog, a royal buck emerged, standing on the top of the hill with its majestic antlers. she mourned how her people no longer understood her, maybe she had lost touch with time.
It's natural to think of Madame Soong, who lived over a century to be 107, and died peacefully in her sleep . She too, had lived through the ups and downs of a truly eventful life, had witnessed first hand a turbulent century in China.
One of my anthropology teachers Margaret Mackinzie said, we are stories carrying stories. How true. Let's see how our own stories should play out at the end of our journey.
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