How to be a Dysfunctional Royal Family
Taken from 1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone
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How to Be a Dysfunctional Royal family
1 Samuel 17: 55- 18: 16
Queen Elizabeth II declared 1992 her annus horribilis, her “horrible year.” The phrase is a riff on the expression annus mirabilis, “miracle year,” the phrase devised by the poet John Dryden to describe 1666, the year when the English navy defeated the Dutch navy (apologies to any Dutch readers) and when the City of London escaped the much greater devastation it might have experienced from the Great Fire of London (Dryden ignored the Great Plague of 1665–1666, but maybe he took plagues for granted the way we take it for granted that thousands of people die in traffic accidents every month). For the Queen, 1992 was the year Windsor Castle caught fire and the year the marriages of two of her sons broke up..