Just out of curiosity is this another instance where a queen is analysed on different terms to a king? I don't know but did all kings make decisions by contrast? And if they did use diplomacy like Elizabeth is it written about in the same way?
C. Hibbert on Elizabeth I: 'Rather than come to a decision she would spend weeks and months in argument and in protracted, useless diplomacy, hoping that difficult problems would resolve themselves - as often, indeed, they did - if left to do so.' AS OFTEN, INDEED, THEY DID
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Exactly the point I was trying to make (just not clearly enough! 280 characters is sometimes too few...). Choosing not to act could be a decision in itself, or a way of defending a previous decision she was under pressure to change. Gender is shot through the entire discussion.
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(I mean, gender shaped the whole nature of her interaction with her ministers, AND the way it’s then been written about by historians...)
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Such an interesting angle ... thank you!
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Thank you for picking up on it! I’ve been wanting to do a thread on this whole passage from Hibbert but too behind with everything else... One day!
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As a chippy Catholic Scouser I always mean to do something on the insufferable smugness of AG Dickens on the Reformation!
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Do it!!
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This is why I have compared Theresa May to Elizabeth
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I see it very differently, L! Wasn’t clear enough about my point here - 280 characters and all that...
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For one thing, Theresa May is allowed to have sex.
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I need to do this more!
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Maybe we should have tried the "seeing if it sorted itself out" and "diplomacy" a bit more before the rushed refendum on Brexit!
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And what happened? She died without an heir and we ended up with the King of Scotland. From that logic ‘all hail Alex Salmond !!!’ Actually bring it on as I like him.
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I never think of diplomacy as useless
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I’ve heard anecdotal evidence of twentieth century leaders being pathologically indecisive like this as well, Franco and Nasser being the main ones
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Franco lasted. Nasser had a fair run.
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I had a boss who based his entire career on this principle.
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