Diana Wichtel: Prince Philip s funeral like a scene from Game of Thrones
30 Apr, 2021 04:00 AM
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There was the small figure of the Queen , suffering stoically. Photo / AP These days we resent having to wait for the next episode of a new television series instead of bingeing until our eyes fall out. Imagine how fans of Charles Dickens felt in New York in 1841, forced to wait on the wharf for the final instalment of The Old Curiosity Shop to chug across the Atlantic so they could discover the fate of the freakishly virtuous Little Nell. Reader, she didn t make it. Even her creator was in bits. Old wounds bleed afresh when I think of this sad story, wrote Dickens. Oscar Wilde, on the other hand: One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.