Wyllow3
"I agree, the mawkish adoration is startling" indeed HPQ I cant explain it either in me!
I think it reminded many people of deaths within their own family, Mums dying and leaving children behind and so on.
It was an outlet for personal grief maybe.
Others were either keen Royalists, those who cry easily and sheep copying others.I felt sad for her and very sad for the two children at the time.No tears tho.