For some five minutes, she delivered her lines as she always had: plainly and coolly. And her words were reminders of how different the Princess was from the elder Royals that survive her. "No one who knew Diana will ever forget her," she said. "Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her." For some of those millions, seven minutes of rehearsed sympathies seemed a frustrating display of royal reticence. But at least one subject interviewed afterwards by reporters felt that he understood: the Queen, he insisted, had said all she could.
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