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LIVE- Death of Elizabeth II: follow minute by minute reactions to the death of the Queen of England
Women of State
by Anne Fulda.
Perrin / Le Figaro
She was the queen.
The universal queen.
A sovereign of which we did not even need to specify the country over which she reigned so much she merged with it, so much she embodied the United Kingdom.
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The disappearance of Elizabeth II was like a brutal reality check.
Even queens are not immortal… Since her accession to the throne in 1953, the sovereign seemed to be an eternal landmark.
Immutable.
A motionless queen with great strides.
Female illustration of this famous line from the Prince of Salina in
The Cheetah
:
“Everything has to change so that nothing changes.
Yes, for the queen, everything
had to change for nothing to change.
Despite the evolution of the world, the disappearance of loved ones, despite the tabloids, social networks, the end of the British Empire, Brexit, the advent of a multicultural society, liberation...
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