The Queen is Dead Long Live the King

Thoughts on the passing of Queen Elizabeth the Second.

During Covid restrictions, I led the funeral of my mother. On the day, people who were not allowed into the crematorium gathered outside the family home.

A woman I did not know asked for me by name. She was distraught but explained she just wanted me to know that many years ago, she had been abandoned with small children and in desperate straits, and my …