8 September 2022
The Queen
Queen Elizabeth II has died. She was born in 1926 – the same year as Marilyn Monroe and Fidel Castro – and reigned for seventy years, fewer than Louis XIV but more than any of her predecessors. She appointed fifteen British prime ministers and six archbishops of Canterbury, and opened Parliament 67 times. She’d already celebrated her silver jubilee when the London Review of Books was founded in 1979. You can read the many pieces we’ve published on her, by William Empson, Hilary Mantel and others, as well as on her successor, her wider family and the institution she inhabited, in the LRB archive.
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Cycle racks in Norwich will be closed as a mark of respect.
The North Shropshire Camel Race has been cancelled.
Chapter in Cardiff will be showing a new edition of a Pasolini film now titled “120 Days of Mourning.”
British Cycling says there should be no solitary activity on Monday.
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