Wednesday 22 June 2022 01:23 AM Queen is the best monarch of all time because she is 'heroically boring', ... trends now
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The Queen has been the best British monarch because she is ‘transcendently boring’, a leading historian said yesterday.
While Tom Holland’s assessment of the 96-year-old may not sound flattering, he explained that she was actually very intelligent, and the fact she ‘never says anything interesting’ was ‘heroic’.
He also said people will ‘encounter a dislocating twist that the past has gone’ when she is no longer with us, and called her ‘the model of a constitutional monarch’.
When asked to pick his favourite monarch since William the Conqueror, historian Tom Holland chose our reigning Queen because she was 'transcendently boring' which was also 'heroic'. His brother added that the Queen was notable for holding herself to a high moral standard unlike some in positions
