‘She Captured All Before Her’

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Queen Elizabeth II was seated in St. Edward’s Chair so long ago that her character defined the monarchy, not the other way around. Her reign began when the British Empire was dissolving and departing, and the young were too worshipful of the welfare state, Philip Gibbs lamented in The New Elizabethans (1953), his assessment of […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/20/the-palace-papers-tina-brown-pinckney/

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