On the occasion of the death of the Queen Mother (no, I’m not celebrating it, nor am I going to participate in the wearing of ashes and sackcloth from an older form of the cult of celebrity), I’m pointing you at Christopher Hitchens’ editorial in the Guardian from last fall.
Events, many of them biological, have done what republican propaganda could not and forced at least a surmise about what lies on the other side of the fog. It will come as sad news to some people, but within a few years the Queen Mother will be no more, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will be on their last legs, and the mass-circulation papers will be forced to write in earnest about the really serious matters, such as whether or not “It’s Queen Camilla!”, or with which “supermodel” Prince William will compromise himself.
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