Elizabeth II

1926–2022 · Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms

Elizabeth II reigned from 1952 until her death in 2022, and her public words were famously sparing — which is part of why the few sentences that landed, landed hard. The 9/11 message was written from Balmoral and sent to a church full of British families in Manhattan who had no bodies to bury. She never delivered it herself; the ambassador read it, and the congregation wept.

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“Grief is the price we pay for love”

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