Re: In defence of Lady Susan Hussey
Edited by CatherineNY on 3/12/2022, 17:59:56
Thank you for posting this article. You beat me to it. For those who can't see it because of the Spectator paywall, it is by Prunella Wyatt, who has known Lady Hussey since she was 18, i.e., for decades. I am pasting in an excerpt of the article. (As background, the reason that Lady Hussey's late husband had only one leg was that he lost it in the Battle of Anzio. Marmaduke Hussey later served as Chief Executive of The Times Newspapers and then as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC.) "I can say with authority, however, that Susan Hussey has never knowingly offended anyone in her life. She upholds a clean tradition of honesty and equity. She possesses the milk of human kindness by the quart. This morning a mutual friend told me she is ‘shattered and heartbroken and will never recover.’ The wasteland that is now her life will be far more devastating than any injury done to Ms Fulani, who far from being the sensitive plant she portrays herself as, is currently taking herself on a tour of every television studio in London. And now we come to the crux of this tragedy. Susan Hussey has no prejudices at all. She spent much of her life married to a man called Marmaduke, who had one leg. She has never sought publicity or the acclaim of the yelling multitudes. She abhors discrimination and once ticked me off for an article I wrote about Italians on the grounds it was both ‘racist’ and ‘unkind’."  Previous Message To spoil the woke piling on that is going on here: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-lady-susan-hussey The article is very balanced and restrained. The shrill level of wokeness and outrage that has been reached - sadly on these boards as well, as very few of the former royalty experts post anymore - would have made me say much more.  Previous Message As awful as the insensitive interchange was, I had to chuckle, as one could easily swap Lady Susan's name with that of the late Prince Philip when reading that conversation as relayed in the BBC story. The King is wise to keep on the modernization (and hopefully zero tolerance) track. Hopefully with the vanishing of the old guard, the monarchy can lead by finally breaking free of that colonial-era tone-deaf mindset that was somehow okay in the past.
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