Pizzey's Perch

Pro­nounce­ments and spec­u­la­tion about why Queen Eliz­a­beth II was beloved invari­ably include her dig­ni­ty, demeanour and ded­i­ca­tion to duty. While all those are valid, I think the sim­ple answer is that even as she con­duct­ed her­self in a man­ner to which most of us can only aspire, she was in a sub­lim­i­nal way, per­ceived as ‘just like us’.… Read the rest