Less than a decade later, reflecting in the London Review of Books on the damage done to the monarchy by the Queen's response to Princess Diana's death (she was widely criticised for her seeming indifference), Bennett wrote: "I remember, regretfully now, one of HMQ's lines in A Question of Attribution which, when we were looking for cuts, we took out: 'I don't like it when people clap me because there may come a time when they won't. Besides I'm there. It's like clapping Nelson's column.'"
