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Former U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Queen Elizabeth’s legacy

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What Challenges Will a 73 Year Old White Man Face in Moving Forward?

You reference the fact that some countries may decide to be independent from the commonwealth. We're also undergoing a reckoning in many countries about a the legacy of colonialism. What specific challenges do you think a 73 year old white man has in managing these enormous challenges moving ahead? I think, to go back to what i started with, his job is not to manage them. His job is to be the monarch and to respect the limits that are placed on that. And politics will take its course. In the end, he will perform his duties, but countries will come to their own views.

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