My Poppy Shame ; One Writer Protested Against the Iraq War by Refusing to Wear the Symbol of the Fallen. Here She Explains Why the Public's Passionate Reaction Changed Her Mind

Evening Standard - London › November 02, 2006

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YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN

THIS week, without meaning to, Camilla stepped with her fine shoes on the hearts of millions. On a fraught official trip with Prince Charles to Pakistan, she dressed to please the population, wearing stylish but modest clothes with long scarves draped around her neck and shoulders. The poppy was hard to fix on the diaphanous material, so she appeared in public without the blood-red flower.

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My Poppy Shame ; One Writer Protested Against the Iraq War by Refusing to Wear the Symbol of the Fallen. Here She Explains Why the Public's Passionate Reaction Changed Her Mind

Bad move.

Sections of the British media and veterans' associations noticed - they always do - and they were not pleased.

Extending diplomatic courtesy in one direction, she inadvertently provoked a thoroughly undiplomatic storm. That misjudgment will stalk her for a ver...

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