There have been lines of people some six or eight miles long snaking across the River Thames. She gave us her life and we can't get with this, Mark Whitaker writes. The Queen is very present in the lives of these countries and their peoples. Even as Britain has given up direct control over most of these countries, many have retained the symbolic tide of the Queen.
The funeral of Queen Elizabeth today will be one of the most extraordinary public spectacles of the last several decades in Britain, accompanied by an outpouring of sadness, reverence and respect.
But the end of the queen’s 70-year reign has also prompted long-delayed conversations about the future of the Commonwealth and of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom.
Guest: Mark Landler, the London bureau chief for The New York Times.
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