{"id":44661,"date":"2022-09-11T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T18:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=44661"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:06:01","slug":"rip-liz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/11\/rip-liz\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Liz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, I’m a few days late on this…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 \u2013\u00a08 September 2022<\/strong>) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime, 15 at the time of her death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was Britain’s longest reigning monarch at a little over 70 years of rule.. and the second longest serving monarch in history. That honor goes to French King Louis XIV how was monarch for\u00a0more than 72 years<\/a>\u00a0after taking the throne at age four and dying in 1715. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Queen Elizabeth\u2019s Legacy Through the Lens of Colonialism and Black Lives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Opinion

"We should not romanticize her era," writes Maya Jasanoff, a professor of history at Harvard, in a guest essay. "The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged." https:\/\/t.co\/3UIf76SriF<\/a><\/p>— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 8, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>