The row of arches formed by the connected pillars in the underpass
1st song on the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD:
THE QUEEN IS DEAD
Pictured
below is the entrance into the underpass where
Princess Diana was killed.
Notice that the center row of connected support
pillars effectively forms a row of "arches":
The row of arches formed by the connected pillars in the
underpass
The arches as seen from Diana's viewpoint, from
the backseat of a car.
Princess Diana smashed into the 13th pillar in the
underpass, which therefore
means that she smashed into the 13th of the "arches" formed by those
pillars.
Correspondingly, ...
Morrissey’s 13th word on Side 1 of the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD is the
word “arches”;
Morrissey’s 13th word on Side 2 of the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD is the
word “smash”:
The
1st
Song (THE QUEEN IS DEAD) on Side
1 of the vinyl edition of THE QUEEN IS DEAD begins with...
Farewell
to this lands cheerless marshes
1
2 3
4
5
6
hemmed
in like a boar between arches
7
8 9 10
11
12 13
The 1st Song (BIGMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN) on Side 2 of the
vinyl edition of
THE QUEEN IS DEAD begins with...
Sweetness,
sweetness I was only joking
1
2 3
4 5 6
when I said I'd like to smash
7
8 9 10 11 12 13
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"It is a point to remember that of
all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this:
a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end,
the most hunted person of the modern age."
- Earl Spencer's eulogy to his sister: Diana, Princess of
Wales. September 6, 1997
Morrissey's first verse on the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD, (in the album's first song, THE QUEEN IS DEAD), contains these consecutive lines:
"hemmed
in like a boar between arches
her very Lowness with her head in a sling"
Consider Morrissey's lines in correlation to Princess Diana's death:
"hemmed
in like a boar between arches":
Diana was tracked down
into an underpass ("hemmed in") by the paparazzi , like a hunted
animal ("like a boar"), until she crashed
"between arches" formed by the support pillars in the underpass.
"her very Lowness with her head in a sling":
When she married Prince
Charles, Diana officially received the lofty title "Her Royal Highness, The
Princess of Wales." When she divorced Prince Charles, Diana's
title was formally reduced to "Diana, Princess of Wales". This
specifically meant that Diana could never again be correctly referred to as
"Her Royal Highness". Correspondingly, Morrissey's lyric uses the most obvious alternative: "her very Lowness".
The ensuing "with her head in a sling" leaves no doubt that being
"hemmed in like a boar between arches" has led "her very
lowness" to a violent death.