British Future, which deals with ‘identity and integration’, commissioned the ICM poll ahead of a Festival of Englishness, which it will co-host with another think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, in London this weekend.
Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said: ‘From Gazza’s tears to the public reaction to Princess Diana’s death... people are more happy to wear their heart on their sleeves.
‘The Englishness that we’ve now got is still proud of tradition, such as Shakespeare, but isn’t as emotionally repressed and buttoned up as it was in the past.’
- Is the English stiff upper lip finally wobbling as emotions take over? DailyMail.co.uk, October 13, 2013.
3. ON THE night of August 30, 1997, a then-15-year-old Prince William and 12-year-old Prince Harry received a phone call from their mother Princess Diana.
But the two young boys were with their cousins in Balmoral and instead of speaking to their mother at length, they rushed the call so they could continue playing.
A few hours later, Princess Diana died in a car accident in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris.
Now, coming up to the 20th anniversary of her death, her two boys have spoken about the crushing guilt they still feel over rushing the call - not realising it would be the final time they’d speak to their mum.
In a brand-new documentary called Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, due to air on Seven’s Sunday Night next week, Prince William said it's still stuck in his mind.
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