Queen Elizabeth II dies

September 8, 2022

Britain's longest-serving monarch died peacefully at Balmoral at age ninety-six, having reigned for seventy years and across fifteen prime ministers, from Churchill to Truss. Crowds queued for miles through London's streets to file past her coffin in Westminster Hall. Her son Charles, now seventy-three and king, inherited a smaller kingdom and an uncertain Commonwealth. An era closed.