The BBC and the royal biographers — alongside the world leaders, British rappers and the public — have hit the repeat button in praise of Queen Elizabeth II’s duty, service, and steadfastness. But that alone can’t explain her transcendent appeal.
LONDON — She was Queen by the Grace of God. She was a mum. She was Defender of the Faith. With a stable full of racehorses. She was Queen of this Realm and many other realms. Who loved big hats and her nipping corgis and who stood astride a century of cataclysmic history and a sprawling royal family notorious for its tabloid dysfunction.
, with hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets to see her coffin pass by and many millions watching on television.No one is enthralled — to be honest, no offense — in the same way by the king of the Belgians, the sultan of Brunei, the emperor of Japan, Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein or the “bicycling royals” of northern Europe — interesting and colorful as they may be.
” era, suggested by millennial Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice in statement Saturday, when she offered comfort and tea and kitsch against a world of dizzying change.Forget the private jet and limo. Leaders relegated to buses for queen’s funeral.She served, she survived, in the longest reign in Britain — and the second-longest reign of any monarch in the history of monarchs.As a constitutional monarch, she did not build Britain’s postwar welfare state or create the National Health Service.
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