In the days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, the tabloids demanded that the Queen show her grief in public. The Daily Express printed the headline “Show Us You Care” over her picture. Buckingham Palace said the royal family had been “hurt by suggestions that they are indifferent to the country’s sorrow.”
On 5 September, the Queen spoke to the nation on television: “So what I say to you now, as your Queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.”