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Commentary: Queen Elizabeth lived nearly a century. The most striking image of her for me is from this year

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Louis of Cambridge look out on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the Trooping the Colour parade on June 2, 2022, in London.

Two of my favorite glimpses of Queen Elizabeth II nearly bookend her life. On her 21st birthday, still just the daughter of a king, she gave a radio broadcast pledging to the British people in a heartbreakingly young voice “that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service.”

Earlier this year, celebrating 70 years as queen in a Platinum Jubilee extravaganza full of gun

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