Commentary
There have been celebrations of national unity and purpose on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean during this past week.
In Britain, a country as badly politically divided as our own in many ways, hundreds of thousands of people stood in lines that were at times several miles long to catch a glimpse of the late queen’s coffin on its way from Scotland to Westminster Hall in London. Millions more watched on television the accession of the first new British sovereign and first king in 70 years.
Everyone seemed to agree that the mystique of royalty, long thought to have been on its last legs along with its power to transcend racial, sexual, religious, and even political division, was still alive and well after all….