The Other Queens
SUPPOSE we may be allowed a little emotional tightening and intellectual slackening at Coronation time, but sometimes I feel we’re just a mite eclectic in our choice of historical personages to point our moral. Lately I have felt a little sorry for such characters as Mary Tudor and Queen Anne, and even more so for William’s Mary who, though equally female sovereigns in their own right, are entirely passed over by the compilers ofthe Coronation programmes in favour of Elizabeth I and Victoria. Take Hector Bolitho’s New Elizabethans, for example, a very pleasing programme giving plenty of scope for national pride and simple personal sympathy. But Captain Marryat’s remark, almost the programme’s raison d’étre, that "England was never so great or glorious as under the dynasty of our Queens," was illustrated solely in terms of Elizabeth and Victoria. I thought the ignoring of our other female sovereigns a little pointed, It would have been both courteous and historical to dredge up some happy parallel, even though it took a little more dredging.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 10
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177The Other Queens New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 10
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