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Ectiseethe • today at 1:18 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Apparently, the British royal family came to the realization a couple of decades ago that it was not an adequate way of avoiding drama anymore.

> With a less deferential and increasingly aggressive media landscape, the strategy of "Never complain, never explain" was abandoned by Prince Charles (the future King Charles III) and his wife Diana, Princess of Wales, in the 1990s.


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juujian • today at 1:38 PM

I am not sure whether the motto is the cause there or the fact that Charles had a lot of drama going on...

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ricardobeat • today at 3:37 PM

It later says that Prince Harry and others were taught that motto in childhood - so that was a temporary slip.