It's a mistake to think that at the time of the tragedy of Princess Diana there was an anti-monarchy feeling. I don't believe there was. The monarchy did its very best in extremely difficult circumstances. The work that Princess Diana did indicates that you can do it. Prince Charles has done a huge amount with inner city deprivation.
People have a great deal of respect for that.
The important thing to realize is that what I call the new British identity isn't about displacing all your past. It's about saying that the country has an exciting future and that we have different attitudes today, but there are bits of our past we are delighted with. In the aftermath of the Depression we all developed the idea that the government would provide certain things for people and that we would pay taxes to fund that. It was the New Deal in the U.S. and the welfare states in Europe. But now we find that the whole of society has changed.