Ms. Suarez Paz offered that, if nothing else, the real-life disaster helped her get deeper in touch with her fictional mother's loss.

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At the same time, the royal family does touch the real world, albeit the part of it inhabited by what remains of the landed upper classes: a life of moors and deer-stalking, of summers under Scottish rain, dogs and horses, the church, the armed forces, the same few boarding schools and the right sort of nightclubs.

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