{Marina Ogilvy}[16th October 1989]

[Redbook6:322-323][19891016:1169]{Marina Ogilvy}[16th October 1989]

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I don’t suppose there are many men or women who could have watched Marina Ogilvy on television* this morning without being moved {to} Love and even to tears; although it was a pity, even if understandable, that (after stressing the importance of the truth) she did not wish to talk about money, or to say so. Curiously enough, what comes across in the end is the Royal Family, at its margins, playing out once again its archetypal role,** acting the archetype of the National Family. Even though she couldn’t rationalise it (or perhaps didn’t wish to explain it), I can understand her and her partner (Paul?)’s*** decision not to get married until after the baby was born:**** one should never ever get married under pressure {–} may be what was, consciously or not, in their minds.

At a time when so many marriages end in divorce# – and if they did not, would become hollow contracts – it is hypocritical to criticise anyone, even a member of the Royal Family, for not rushing into a marriage after an accidental conception; and it is vile to present her with termination as one of so small and harsh a set of options: marry, terminate, or be cut off.

No doubt the parents’ version will differ.

*BBC1, ‘Kilroy’, 0920

**cf The Messianic Legacy! (ibid [[Redbook6:320][19891015:0000]{‘The Messianic Legacy’}[15th October 1989]]) – but the idea is not new to me.

***[Yes]

****[This does not appear to be how it turned out.]

#[It seems that this one did not last.]

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