Zareer Masani writes on the Queen and the Commonwealth As one of Midnight’s Children, born just after India achieved independence, I was an unlikely royalist. And yet, ever since I can remember, I was fascinated by kings and queens, [...]
Philip Corbett was there When the news came in that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth was seriously unwell and that members of the Royal Family were travelling to Balmoral it was difficult to know what it all really meant, or [...]
David Houlding was in St Paul’s Cathedral for the monarch’s words as everyone tried to process the news and come to terms with what was happening Suddenly, breaking the silence which had pervaded the whole Cathedral, the King’s voice [...]
Luke Miller reports on the plans and efforts to connect Church with people For ages now I have kept safe a piece of paper marked ‘official sensitive’ (which basically means ‘don’t email it, don’t leave it on the photocopier’) [...]
Stephen Cottrell offers some reflections on a momentous ten days The death of Her Majesty The Queen fell on 8 September, the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady. As Her Majesty was being called to her eternal reward so [...]
David Hope who ‘kissed hands with a K’ recalls fondly the late monarch’s service and stamina If there was just one word to describe the seventy-year reign of Queen Elizabeth the Second, it must surely be the word ‘service’. [...]
For royal biographer Hugo Vickers, the Queen was incomparable We have lived through sad and yet stirring days since the news came from Balmoral on the evening of Thursday 8 September. I became distinctly uneasy when I heard that [...]
Piety, duty, and dogs – Jeremy Black surveys the life of Britain’s longest-reigning and possibly most popular monarch From the perspective of today, it can be surprising to realise how unusual monarchy was becoming in the background to the [...]
The Queen of our nation died not on her own birthday but on the birthday of the Queen of Heaven. This may not have been widely picked up during the recent media coverage of our monarch’s death, but it is [...]
Andy Hawes Music & Spirit Where would we be without music? Music enriches life in so many ways: it is thrilling and joyful to make, and can be life changing to listen to. Perhaps music of all creative [...]