Queen Elizabeth dies: an appreciation by Simon Schama
Elizabeth II managed, when it counted most, to be the idealised personification of the nation, immune to hysteria but open to social empathy.
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Elizabeth II managed, when it counted most, to be the idealised personification of the nation, immune to hysteria but open to social empathy.
When the nation was in troubled waters, Her Majesty's steady hand could be trusted to guide us through any storm
The monarchy presents itself as a “mysterious and magical inheritor of an endless past.” Would Britain be better off without it?
While the empire slipped away, society swung and privacy withered, she was steadfast, putting duty above all else
In the era of the Queen’s coronation, the UK was a land of deprivation and deference, but profound social and economic change was about to transform the nation and then the monarchy