Sunday 18 September 2022 01:47 AM Mail on Sunday Comment: The best way we can honour the Queen is to emulate her trends now
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We have almost reached the day when we must confront, in all its depth and majesty, the finality of our late Queen’s death. For many who mourn, it is not until the actual funeral that the full force of bereavement strikes. Until then, we sometimes postpone the hard truth in busy activity. And in the ceremonies, spectacles, processions, proclamations and the great national expression of love and loyalty that has surrounded the lying-in-state, we have perhaps protected ourselves from the feeling of irrecoverable loss that must eventually come.
Tomorrow the long, sad days bring us to the edge of the tomb, to the last lament and to the chilly beginning of a new era, whose nature we cannot know, except that it will be very different from the 70 years that went before.
Shakespeare, as so often, has fitting words for the new generation as they contemplate the vast events through which Elizabeth II so gently guided us, and as the last of the wartime generation, including our Queen, walk slowly off into the twilight, leaving the rest of us to manage for ourselves: ‘The oldest hath borne most; we that are young/ Shall never see so much, nor live so long.’
Mail on Sunday: The best way we can honour the Queen is to emulate her
In a way, let us hope that we shall not see so much: the
