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the woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only - a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. the woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels. — l.m. montgomery

The Crown - Season 5, “Decommissioned”

With its operational price tag of about $18 million a year, and its need for expensive improvements—The Britannia seemed simply too lavish and impractical an expense for the public to keep footing. With a heavy heart, the queen agreed to decommission the yacht in 1997 after 43 years of use and over a million miles traveled. The archaic nature of the yacht and the monarchy itself was heavily critiqued and routinely mocked on British TV in the interim period before Diana’s death in August of 1997.

(Dame Edna’s generous televised offer to privately buy the yacht for the Royal Family was considered but ultimately declined. Rumor suggests she bought it in secret and stored her gowns there until her death in 2023.)