DUTIFUL TO THE END
THE impish smile, the twinkle in her eye, the ever-present handbag – as present as they’ve always been over the many years she’s appeared in public. Yet at her last official public engagement, she was clearly more frail and fragile, a walking stick and a bruised hand signs of the health issues that had plagued her in the past year.
Queen Elizabeth would’ve been forgiven for passing on the duty of ushering in a new prime minister to her eldest son. Nobody would begrudge the 96-year-old a bit of rest at her holiday home in Scotland.
But the monarch had made a promise to
