The Queen is Dead. Long Live the King.

Faye Baker
9 min readSep 9, 2022
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. Photo by Mathew Browne on Unsplash

The sad news that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died on the 8th of September 2022, at the age of 96, must have reached all parts of the globe by now. It marks the end, not so much of an era but of an age. The reign Queen Elizabeth coincided with possibly the greatest flourishing of human development since the Renaissance, not just in the UK but around the world. A golden age in which man went from the devastation and ruin of the Second World War to landing a man on the moon and sending rockets to mars. It recovered from the vile hatred and fascist rhetoric of Nazi Germany to produce festivals of love and music enjoyed by millions and explored the world of socialism through many, many reforms and egalitarian opportunities. It was a time of technological advance that has elevated work from mindless drudgery to a superabundance of productivity through automation. It was an age that raised health and fitness to such a degree that living to a hundred became not just possible but expected. Her reign saw Universal Health Care, under the NHS, cemented into the fabric of British life and exported the idea throughout the globe. During her reign we have seen workers rights and human rights grow and flourish and we have seen the working class raised out of poverty into affluence. She has overseen an age where an education became the norm and a university degree become achievable by any with the intelligence and…

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Faye Baker

Writer, thinker and inveterate maker. Part-time Cognitive scientist. Retired technical author and software developer. Avid reader about climate and ecosystems.