World icon: A man holding a newspaper with a front page of Queen Elizabeth II as he stands outside the gates of Windsor Castle in Windsor, England. The Queen had to abandon Bagehot’s handbook and invent a new one all of her own.— AP
BRITAIN’S longest-serving monarch has died.
It feels like a death in the family. Born in 1926, the year that John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television, and crowned in 1953, the year of Joseph Stalin’s death, the Queen has been with us for so long that only a sliver of the population can remember life without her.
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