OMG! This is it, isn’t it? I am not ready for this! I was not old enough nor much of an Anglophile or royal watcher at the time of Princess Diana’s death to appreciate its significance. However, being a history lover, the death of Queen Elizabeth II would be a monumental event as she marks the end of a genuinely glorious era. Just think, she is old enough to have aided in the World War II effort to defeat fascism in Europe. Although she was not Queen, she helped the allies defeat Hitler. Think about that! How many veterans of the world’s greatest fight — the fight that defines everything we are living today — remain? How ironic that we are about to lose an icon who fought fascism and reigned during the Cold War as the West fought authoritarianism only to witness fascism rise in America and the West struggling to fight ascending authoritarianism in Europe once again. Queen Elizabeth’s life is an uncanny bookend of an era of history we are about to repeat. God save the Queen for as long as He may.
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