After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, there were those who felt the world had turned into a different place, somewhere scarier and less dependable. The registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists spoke of people feeling “shocked, anxious, or fearful about changes they don’t feel prepared for, or deep feelings of loss and sadness”. A YouGov poll concluded that 44 percent of adult Britons had shed a tear at the news: 55 percent of women and 32 percent of men.
You would have to have been over 100 years old to remember a world without her. She was famous from the moment she was born and made the cover of Time magazine in the week of her third birthday, in April 1929. “She is the World’s best known Baby, and what a delightful thought it is that the Baby herself is unconscious of it!” began her first biography, The Story of Princess Elizabeth, published the following year.
