Talk:People's princess
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Dumelow in topic Not a 'Blair original'
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 20:32, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
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- ... that Tony Blair felt that the sobriquet People's princess sounds "corny" and "over the top" but "at the time it felt natural"? Source: "The phrase people's princess now sounds like something from another age. And corny. And over the top. And all the rest of it. But at the time it felt natural and I thought, particularly, that she would have approved" (Tony Blair, A Journey, 2010, Random House, 978-1-4090-6095-6, pg 139)
Converted from a redirect by No Swan So Fine (talk). Self-nominated at 07:06, 8 May 2021 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and the article is neutral. I detected no copyright issues although there are a number of properly attributed quotes that Earwig picks up. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Not a 'Blair original'
editThe phrase was clearly not invented by Tony Blair and in 1984 it was used as the title of S.W. Jackman's book The people's princess: a portrait of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck. Should there not be some discussion of that point? AnthonyCamp (talk) 08:33, 27 May 2021 (UTC).
- Interestingly this is from 1910: "the crowds that thronged every available point of vantage along the route gave abundant proof that the daughter of the 'People's Princess', as the Duchess of Teck was affectionately called, had found a place deep down in the heart of the nation". The term was also used in 1879 by Behramji Malabari and by a Methodist journal to refer to Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, after her death. Even earlier in 1832 a journal published an ode to Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom that ended with the phrase - Dumelow (talk) 19:19, 27 May 2021 (UTC)