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 [...]