[Alberta's Child]

Instead, to continue with the familial analogy, it’s as though a distant, rich aunt, whom neither I nor anyone in my immediate family had ever gotten so much as a Christmas card from, had died, leaving her fortune not to her blood relatives but to UNICEF.

Perfectly said.

[Wuli]

Stupidly said.

The “instead” comment was like an American with no emotional attachment at all to the death of a great symbol of our foundations. The British monarchs today are such a symbol in Britain - a living symbol to its roots.