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Like all of us “boomers,” it’s hard to imagine a world without “The Queen.” I can vaguely remember my parents, grandmother, and aunt glued to our black and white TV in Milwaukee to watch Elizabeth’s coronation. It was the first internationally televised world event, although admittedly the American version was on film, not live.
Elizabeth basically rose from her death bed to perform her final constitutional duty, the appointment of Liz Truss as her Prime Minister. And, she did a good job of it, performing with grace, dignity, and a strength of character that even coming death couldn’t squelch. She wasn’t one to “just go through the motions” — I don’t think the concept “good enough for government work” was in her vocabulary.
Compare Queen Elizabeth’s sense of duty in putting constitution, duty, and service before personal comfort and ego with the sleazy performance of recent world leaders including, specifically, disgraceful, dishonest, selfish, lawless, self-aggrandizing, right wing turkeys 🦃 Trump and Johnson!
Four queens to an ace? Although the overwhelming number of British monarchs have been men, it’s four of the Queens — Elizabeth I, Anne, Victoria, and Elizabeth II — who have proved to most skilled at the position and left the biggest historical footprints (although I’m sure that somewhere in the afterworld, Henry VIII would debate that).
Elizabeth has been succeeded by King Charles III, who spent the longest “period in waiting” of any British monarch. It’s going to be a tough act to follow, but we all wish him well. The Queen is dead; long live the King!🇬🇧👑
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PWS
09-09-22