UEEN ELIZABETH II FAMOUSLY DED-icated her “whole life” to public service and was still showing politicians how it’s done in her 90s, from the steadiness and compassion of her leadership during the coronavirus pandemic to her final official act two days before her death: formally appointing Liz Truss as the U.K.’s new prime minister.
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch made the oft-quoted pledge to dedicate her life to her subjects on her 21st birthday in 1947, five years before she became queen. During a radio broadcast from Cape