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If accurately reported, such a conversation would represent something unusually difficult within this family.
Because saying it aloud can be.
Royal families survive partly through continuity.
The institution moves forward.
A reign ends.
Photographs change.
The balcony fills with different faces.
Children remember.
William remembers being a boy whose parents’ marriage disintegrated in front of the world.
He remembers newspapers turning private family conflict into public entertainment.
And, above everything else, he remembers losing her.
An apology cannot return a mother.
But acknowledgment can still matter.
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