On a lighter (?) note…
This news from the other day caused quite some confusion and merriment; as the chap on Threads who posted this screenshot said, isn’t she… you know, dead? I think a surprising number of us needed a surprising amount of time to realise the Queen in question was actually Camilla, not Liz… which kind of says a lot about how people will never think of Camilla as “The Queen” in the way that Liz was “The Queen”; you hold a position long enough, you become “the” thing, and 70 years is an awfully long time to stay in one job. (In a similar way, John Paul II was the Pope of my lifetime—even though he was really the third but baby me had no awareness of Paul VI or JP1 before him—because he was Pope for so long, and neither Joe Ratzinger nor Jorge from Buenos Aires has ever been “the Pope” for me in the way old Karol was.) Plus I saw someone else saying something similar about “the Prince of Wales” and how they thought it was a reference to Charles, not William, and I knew exactly what they meant. Awfully hard to think of him as King somehow…
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