It was British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli who first coined the phrase ‘never complain, never explain’, and succinctly encapsulated the stiff upper lip of the Victorian age.
Adopted by members of royalty, high-ranking army officers, aristocrats and fellow prime ministers Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill, its timeless wisdom, particularly in the face of the rise of the popular press, made it a guiding mantra of the powerful and the unaccountable. If Queen Elizabeth never actually said it, it didn’t matter. It was the maxim by which she lived and guiding principle of the Firm; her
