Is Queen Elizabeth II interesting? Not in a world-historical sense"the dwindling power of the monarchy in the postcolonial age, the assortment of turmoils that have raged around her during her sixty-four-year reign"but in a personal one? An audience with Her Majesty, one imagines, consists of a carefully observed protocol for greeting, an extended glove, and a few pleasant words about dogs or horses or the immedia…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 03:00PM on November 4, 2016