In a speech marking the 40th anniversary of her accession, Queen Elizabeth said: “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an annus horribilis.”

By gilded standards, it had been a horrible year for Britain’s royal family, with a fire at Windsor Castle, the tragedy of family suicide and, just a few days after the queen’s speech, the separation of Prince Charles from Princess Diana...

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