The passing of Queen Elizabeth II was simultaneously surprising and expected. Just a few days before her death she appointed the new British Prime Minister, Liz Truss – at 96 years old, the queen continued with her duties when others would have long passed them on.
Mixed among the praise of her life’s achievements were the reminders by snarky observers that Britain had once been a colonial power that treated its mostly unwilling subjects alternately with contempt, conniving and compulsion.
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