“London bridge is down
.
With this cryptic
and laconic sentence, Buckingham Palace announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The “collapsed bridge” of the obituary message is the one she embodied for nearly seventy years: a junction between the British people and their millennial history.
Seeing the sovereign on the balcony, or traveling in a horse-drawn carriage, the least monarchist of the English felt as though associated with the genius of his illustrious country.
"Queen of the United Kingdom and of the other States of the Commonwealth"
, Her Gracious Majesty sent back a magnificent image of her country, and her mere presence in the midst of her people enlightened and warmed the hearts of her subjects.
Yet the scepter that this queen of exceptional longevity and old-fashioned elegance held in her hands was essentially a symbol.
His strength had no common measure with the power of a Chinese or American president, his popularity, nothing comparable to that of the stars of cinema or pop music
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