It made me sad to read that Queen Elizabeth II passed away on Thursday. I thought the new King’s statement was so moving, as was Prince William’s. The Queen was only about a year and a half older than my grandfather, and he spent his formative years in England and maintained certain British sensibilities his whole life, so in some admittedly farfetched way she was a link to him. On the other side of my family, my grandmother remembers the death of King George, the Queen’s father, and her subsequent coronation. And now in her lifetime be”H my grandmother will see another. And we’ll get to see our first.
