Diana and a democracy time warp

Published: 28 May, 2010

• IT’S interesting how curiously event-blinkered and time-warped those in authority can become.

The Democracy Village in Parliament Square was reportedly to be cleared because the squalid sight of it to Her Majesty would be too demeaning.
Folk sleep out by the roadsides even in Royal Parks (so-called) on big occasions and their belongings aren’t categorised as squalid.

Nor were the oceans of flowers and ephemera deposited throughout The Mall and St James’s Park thoroughfares when Princess Diana died and the Queen would surely have been well aware.

The same happened, indeed was encouraged, at the time of Charles and Diana’s wedding.
So congested was the latter occasion that folk got trampled against Hyde Park’s internal railings in the darkness.
IAN CAMERON
Studley Road, SW4