DEAR READERS

Perhaps a bit dusty and slightly chauvinistic etiquette

says: You don't talk about the age of women!

The colleague who

edited

the caption on the Weltspiegel (Monday edition) for the photo of the Queen of England at the horse race in Ascot would have

adhered to this.

It says there that the monarch is 93 years old.

Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926 in the central London district of Mayfair and is therefore already 95. The Queen, if she noticed this mistake, would certainly not even comment on it, unpretentious and sovereign as she is.

In any case, we did not want to flatter the old lady by making her two years younger, and we apologize for this carelessness.

Christian Vordemann

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