Queen Elizabeth II Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Dec 18, 2023

Last month, reporting here on the first part of the sixth and last season of The Crown, I was, if I say so myself, a mite snotty. I more or less accused the series’ creator, Peter Morgan, of shamelessly squeezing…

by | Nov 21, 2023

Another year, another installment of The Crown. The series, which started in 2016, has been a cash cow for Netflix. But the end is in sight. The first four episodes of the sixth season went out to the world on…

by | May 6, 2023

I watched King Charles’s coronation on Saturday as avidly as I watched his mother’s obsequies last September. And I was as dazzled with the second ceremony as with the first. Not because I’m a royalist or anything, but because I…

by | Sep 22, 2022

As a practicing Anglophile, heavy TV news consumer, and borderline insomniac, there was no chance that I would miss the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The 4 a.m. ET start of coverage was less a deterrent than a lure.  I…

by | Sep 15, 2022

Three months ago, colorful crowds caroused in the streets of London as the queen stepped onto the Buckingham Palace balcony to celebrate her 70th year on the throne. Today, the streets are quiet, grey, and bleak. A cloud of melancholy…

by | Sep 13, 2022

Washington — I met King Charles III when he was but the Prince of Wales on the evening of Nov. 2, 2005. I was the guest of President George W. Bush, and he invited me to the White House, perhaps…

by | Sep 12, 2022

A great queen was dethroned and a young princess stepped up and took her place. A king was knocked out by a very young pretender bursting with talent and energy. Serena Williams and Rafa Nadal, queen and king of tennis…

by | Sep 11, 2022

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this…

by | Sep 10, 2022

Civilization, under nearly continuous and effective assault since the temper tantrums and abdications of the sixties, took another major hit with the death of Elizabeth II. Of the millions of words, most of them laudatory, that have been spoken about…

by | Sep 10, 2022

“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying,” Tweeted Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya. “May her pain be excruciating.” The professor of Modern Languages ghoulishly savored a painful death for the 96-year-old Queen…

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