Every generation gets the royals—and the royal wedding—it deserves. The Brits who lived through war and austerity and rationing were rewarded with the union of a Stakhanovite stiff and a handsome chancer. She’s still on the job 71 years later. (He retired last year, at the age of 96.) My cohort, which optimistically believed we had inherited a more meritocratic future, got Charles and Di. She hugged and overshared, they both cheated, and the fairy-tale marriage was followed by a nightmare divorce and the gradual disintegration of the welfare state, state funding for education, and the fantasy of social mobility.
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