Elizabeth II Gave Us a Magnificent Example of Restraint, Though She Understood That Above Her Was Only God

The new king has shown less of a willingness to stand back from the temptation of politics.

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Queen Elizabeth II sheds a tear during the Field of Remembrance Service at Westminster Abbey, November 7, 2002. Jeremy Selwyn/pool via AP, file

The world mourns. Elizabeth II has died. The Royal Commonwealth is in uncharted waters. Not since the death of her father, George VI, in 1952 has there been a change of head of state. For most of us, it has always been “The Queen.”

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