"Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour"
Elizabeth II, The Queen, passes into history.
“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.”
— Princess Elizabeth, from Cape Town, on her 21st birthday in 1947.
The passage of The Queen is not a tragedy. No life lived so well, so dutifully, and with such faith in things n…
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