Monday, October 02, 2006

Royalty and riots

I haven't read Sarah Bradford's Diana, as I'm still struggling through Patrick Jephson's Shadows of a Princess (I think the Amazon review is rather unfair, btw, although it is striking how few times Jephson mentions CPB). But from the Sunday Telegraph's review this was rather striking:
In the days leading up to Diana's funeral, the Metropolitan Police tried unsuccesfully to draft in the army, in the event of large-scale civil disorder, settling instead for the deployment of riot squads concealed in side-streets along the route of the cortege

posted by Matthew @ 10/02/2006 07:34:00 PM Comments: 0