An excellent piece of writing and remembrance by Stephen Bates in The Guardian.
Of all the news reporting and articles on her death, this one excels not only because the language is facile yet perfect, but also because it is a time machine. You sit in it and see her birth and you continue sitting until you are transported to her death, looking out of the window of the Time Machine and witnessing all the events as they unfold right before your eyes. If you have patience and focus you will get to the end of this long obituary in seemingly no time at all. If you lack those virtues you will have difficulty getting to the end of it https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/queen-elizabeth-ii-obituary?utm_term=631a5991f8c242b357c4eea32117800f&utm_campaign=MorningMailAUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=morningmailau_email Roland. Toronto.
