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Andrew Milligan / WPA Pool / Getty Photos: The Coronation of King Charles III
Images from the historic royal ceremony in London this morning
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Chris Jackson / Getty Prince Harry’s Book Undermines the Very Idea of Monarchy
The prince’s memoir, Spare, is a scorching account of life in a golden cage.
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Courtesy of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke … Harry, Meghan, and the Men Who Hate Them
No wonder the couple left England
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Netflix The Cringeworthy End of Harry & Meghan on Netflix
The ex-royals insist they’re moving on. Viewers should be so lucky.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Britons’ Growing Buyer’s Remorse for Brexit
With the Tory government shackled to a Brexit policy that is losing support, an angry new populism may resurge.
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Chris Jackson / Getty Harry and Meghan Are Playing a Whole Different Game
In their new Netflix series, the ex-royal couple know exactly who their audience is.
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Illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Sources: Hugo Burnand / … The Petulant King
Charles III can’t keep the myth of monarchy alive.
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Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty Why Direct Democracy Is Proving So Powerful for Protecting Abortion Rights
Ballot initiatives—not party politics—are allowing new majorities to emerge in support of more lenient abortion policies.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation
Even by British traditions of political failure, this prime minister’s brief tenure has been a spectacular disaster.
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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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Charles McQuillan / Getty Boris Johnson’s Terrible Parting Gift
Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is walking into an economic hurricane.
