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Gareth Fuller / Redux The Elitist History of Wearing Black to Funerals
Today, mourning attire is subdued and dutiful. It wasn’t always that way.
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Daniel Leal / Getty What the Queen’s Funeral Taught Me About Britain
Mourning Elizabeth II showed her kingdom at its best.
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Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty The Hobbit King
Charles III is far more interested in the benefits of traditional English hedgerows than the great, global glory of Britain.
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WPA Pool / Getty King Charles Should Get Ready to Abdicate
To counter a global trend toward gerontocracy, Britain’s new monarch should retire at 75.
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Tim Graham / Getty After the Queen, What Is Britain?
Elizabeth II had an instinctive grasp of the need to sustain the spell of royal enchantment. Her son Charles III may be less blessed with that gift.
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CBS / Getty No One Performed Britishness Better Than Her Majesty
She understood intuitively what an extraordinary force cultural power could be.
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Keystone-France / Getty; The Atlantic How She Did It
Elizabeth II made the U.K.’s constitution work. America could learn a thing or two.
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Jacob King / Pool / AFP / Getty The Silent Sovereign
Helen Lewis on the end of Britain’s second Elizabethan era
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Bettmann / Getty The Queen of the World
The paradox of Elizabeth II’s reign was that in presiding over a shrinking empire, she became a modern global monarch.
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Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty Photos: The Remarkable Life of Queen Elizabeth II
A collection of images of Elizabeth’s life and travels, from age 5 to 96
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Suzanne Plunkett / WPA Pool / Getty The Second Elizabethan Age Has Ended
For seven decades, Elizabeth II gave Britain a constant, even as her kingdom was transformed.
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Associated Press Looking Back at Princess Elizabeth
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Chris Jackson / Getty Looking Back on Queen Elizabeth’s 90 Years
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 90th birthday—here is a collection of images of Elizabeth’s remarkable life, from ages 5 to 90.
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Phil Noble / Reuters How the British Royal Family Became a Global Brand
It’s hard to imagine the monarchs of Saudi Arabia and Thailand selling souvenir tchotchkes in quite the same way.
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The Cost of the Crown
KINGSLEY MARTIN, who for thirty years was editor of the New Statesman and Nation, here discusses the difficult task of educating the royal heir and the cost of the crown to the British people. This is the second of two excerpts from Mr. Martin’s book, The Magic of the British Monarchy, which will be published in the fall under the Atlantic–Little‚ Brown imprint.
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Associated Press The Education of a Queen
Princess Elizabeth will be eighteen on her next birthday. How does her education compare with that of an American girl of the same age? And how does it compare with that of Victoria, who was also educated to be a queen?
