MIKE BEARDALL It is the end of an era in more ways than one. The loss of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history, represents the final closing of the post-war era that defined Britain’s international role during the second half of the 20th Century. Historians of the future may very well conceive of a Second Elizabethan Age, much as they do for the reigns of Victoria, George III, or Elizabeth Tudor for that matter. Paraphrasing President Macron, who captured the global view, ‘you have lost your Queen, but the World has lost the Queen’. The flawless execution of the B…
