Goodbye, Ma’am

I watched about 10 minutes of the Queen’s funeral, but it was enough. It was, surprisingly, an emotional goodbye, even after all the publicity about her death at the age of 96. This lady had represented her country for 70 years, consulted by15 British Prime Ministers, from Winston Churchill (born 1874) to Liz Truss (born 1975). Charles III, her son, the new head of state of the United Kingdom and other realms (for example Australia and Canada), stood before her coffin, and with a little difficulty placed a kind of flag on it. Moments later, a Scottish bagpiper began to play and walked away into the distance of magical Westminster Cathedral.

It was goodbye, not just to a lady but to her time and age. She was a living…