Queen Elizabeth Ii
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Circumnavigating the Regal Void September 13, 2024
Queen Elizabeth II was only ever spotted running in public on two occasions, or so Craig Brown alleges in his biography of the late monarch A Voyage Around the Queen. The first was in 1954 when her horse Aureole won at Ascot; the second, nearly four ...
Ghosts of British Life May 09, 2023
One summer, when I was a student, I worked at the Tower of London for a few weeks. The work itself was pretty soul destroying, but in my breaks I could wander anywhere I wanted within the Tower’s precincts. Chatting to Beefeaters was a particular hig...
Meghan Markle’s Comeback May 08, 2023
Maybe it was always going this way. After being a briefcase girl, an actress, a D-list celebrity and blowing it as a real-life royal, perhaps the only natural next step for Meghan Markle was to become an influencer. Look at Fergie, once married to Pr...
A Queen's Lesson for America May 02, 2023
The unity that the death of Queen Elizabeth II brought to the United Kingdom last fall offers a provocative contrast to the division characteristic of American democracy as we head into a presidential election next year.British electoral politics can...
Fairy Tale September 30, 2022
I was twelve years old when I first heard the voice of Queen Elizabeth II. It was a Saturday morning in 1965 and instead of cartoons or Little Rascals films on television, there was a broadcast of a memorial being dedicated to the late President Kenn...
God Save the Sex Pistols September 30, 2022
The death of Queen Elizabeth II puts the Sex Pistols in a suddenly distant past. Twinned in life, twinned in death. Elizabeth’s silver jubilee of 1977 was, like her state funeral on Sept. 19, one of those great British ceremonials that, punctuating p...
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022) September 09, 2022
She was the epitome of humility and service, and sustained through much turmoil by faith....
