Dear Subscriber,ADDED: I figured out independently that I needed to "use care" and I did use care. It was, in my experience, impossible not to tear the page. Thanks for hitting me over the head with the obsolescence of dead-tree media. I'm forced to go on line to read the article.
Please use care when removing the envelope attached to page 35 of the February issue. The releasable glue has proved stronger than expected and may tear the paper.
The full text of Tanya Gold's article, "The Queen and I," is available for free here.
We regret the error.
-Harper's Magazine
January 20, 2016
Email received from Harper's Magazine after I tore page 35.
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I'm interested to learn that Harper's is still in print. My subscription lapsed around the time Lewis Lapham lied about being at the GOP Convention, but not because of that.
Thanks for sharing the article, although I didn't like her tone. Someone who thinks she is clever writing metaphor after metaphor.
In, "The Queen," Mirren is sad about the beautiful stag because it suffered after being poorly shot (by a rich American,of course) rather than immediate death.
Perhaps the writer should ask herself how a very modern socialized Denmark has a popular monarchy without the class system? The British press used to make fun of those royals who bicycle their children to school, but I think that's the model Charles will go for as King.
"There is something pathetic about a fiercely vacuumed throne room."
The British press used to make fun of those royals who bicycle their children to school, but I think that's the model Charles will go for as King.
Charles is way too old to cycle. (He really always has been).
Will Charles be the oldest monarch to ascend to the British Throne? My recollection is that Victoria's uncle currently holds that honor.
(goes to look)
Ah. Charles has passed William.
Funny, I was thinking that this was *excellent* customer service. The problem was not on par with, say VW's recent issues, but it's a great effort.
-XC
Will Charles be the oldest monarch to ascend to the British Throne?
I keep hoping he will die before his mum, or that Parliament will have the sense to bypass him in favor of his son.
Prince Charles is barmy.
Here is a very good special on the Queen Mum produced around her 100th birthday. I had been watching historic specials on life downstairs in service at a real Downton when this was suggested. http://youtu.be/NSoddUu1Djk
I enjoyed the previously unseen interviews such as the Queen Mum in 1977 showing pictures she had taken of Buckingham Palace during WW2 as well as ordinary people who met her during that time. Also some staged newsreel showing Princess Elizabeth listening to 40's music on the radio while writing letters when "unexpectedly" the King and Queen walk in, and surprised Elizabeth turns off the radio. There is also and Edward R. Murrow interview from 1956 with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Duke gives a carefully recited response to Murrow's question of regrets.
I have been hearing how Charles is "barmy," since the 80s, but he was way ahead of the curve on a lot of things like organic food that everyone sees as normal now.
I don't think Wiliam wishes that he is the next monarch with a young family never mind that his father would die soon. It's better to be the Prince of Wales than the King, better to be the Duke of Cambridge rather than the Prince of Wales. More freedom to live more normally as a family, less pressure.
You were not "forced". You were inveigled.
Madison Man, I didn't mean Charles would bicycle, but that he would pare down the monarchy. For example, make only the grandchildren of the eldest child of the monarch royal. Sort of the way Prince Edward did with his children. Other changes like that to trim things. He has already made sure that Beatrice and Eugenie (entitled to the title of Princess under current rules) don't have a role as say, the grandchildren of George V (Dukes of Kent & Gloucester, Prince Michael and Princess Alexandra of Kent) have had to serve. Times are different with less disease, better medicine and air travel means the world is smaller (no more 6-12 month tours of the former Emoire via ship). No need for so many royals.
What was the envelope for? Was it "business reply" like all those damn cards they stuff in magazines?
When you drop those in the mail without filling them in it's like mercy killing.
Email received from Harper's Magazine after I tore page 35.
Wow, that's creepy! I wonder what technology they're using to track that sort of thing.
Did you try tearing any other pages to see if it would happen again?
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"What was the envelope for? Was it "business reply" like all those damn cards they stuff in magazines?"
It was an offer from the Wall Street Journal to subscribe.
I have been hearing how Charles is "barmy," since the 80s, but he was way ahead of the curve on a lot of things like organic food that everyone sees as normal now.
Not everyone.
Prince Chuckles is as mad as a hatter.
Forced, you say? Only if you care enough about the article, which it seems you ought not.
"Forced," or "Tricked," to go online by a magazine that wants more digital subscribers?
This is marketing genius!
> I'm forced to go on line to read the article.
First world problems. (Also, you could've just skipped the whole thing. There are always choices.)
Also, Scotch tape.
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