One’s heart goes out to the British people on the death of their monarch. It’s hard to imagine that Elizabeth Regina is gone. She has been a constant presence in American life via our media, which is fascinated with the British royal family, though of course those who are not her subjects can only hope to imagine what this loss feels like to them. May God comfort all who loved her.
She was a representative of a more honorable and admirable world. I just heard one of her biographers say on CNN that the Queen would pray on her knees at night before crawling into bed. That’s such a poignant image. Unlike, alas, some of her progeny and their wives, she carried herself with great dignity, of the sort that one never sees anymore, and that we may never see again.
Elizabeth was at the...