One Vogue writer reflects on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
I’m not sure if you noticed—perhaps you were buying winter knits or bemoaning Disney’s new Black mermaid—butWhen the news broke, I was hesitant to write anything about her un-sudden death, feeling that there was no hot take, no witty aside. I felt neither relieved nor bereft, just that void feeling that one of the most prominent figures of Britishness was gone.gone.
Twitter was awash with responses both kind and snarky. Even the most rudimentary critical thinking will have you questioning excessive wealth as Britain enters an energy crisis and thousands of households have to choose between eating and heating. But it’s objectively sad when someone dies, regardless of the wealth and privileges they were born into.
I’m finding the 24-hour rolling news coverage both insufferable and fascinating. It’s sort of macabrely brilliant to watch newscasters grab for commentary over endless footage of a carand people looking at it sadly. The news reporting is aggressively persistent—flipping to a quick recap ofwould feel like treason—and yet somehow also fact-less, all opinion without definite insight, conjecture without evidence.
That’s the magic of the royal family. Their power is both material and symbolic, but most dominant is their sense of mystique. We can but guess, but being on the gossipy sidelines of royal snafus is kinda…fun? Did Meghan make Kate cry or vice versa? Was that really over the etiquette of tights in summer? Did the name Lilibet anger the queen? Have
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