The public outpouring of emotion and deep sorrow being expressed around the world following the death of Queen Elizabeth II would, in all probability, have embarrassed Her Majesty.
We can hear her saying to those close to her, ‘What’s all the fuss about?’ She would quite likely have thought it all ‘just a bit much’.
The Queen, like her only daughter Anne, was not one for public displays of emotion and nor was she given to ‘playing to the cameras’ which shadowed her every public appearance, not only for her seventy years as Sovereign, but her entire life.
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