Mary McNamara: For Americans, Queen Elizabeth II was the central character in the world's longest-running soap opera
by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Sep 08, 2022
3 minutes
My mother often shared two memories of her experience as a young woman during World War II: Her grandmother, an Irish woman with memories of hunger and fear under British rule, cheering the Blitz, to her family's horror; and the impressive sight of the royal family remaining in London even as bombs dropped on Buckingham Palace. Like millions of others, my mother saw young Princess Elizabeth, who later volunteered as a military truck driver and auto mechanic, as especially heroic.
Queen Elizabeth II, who at age 96, would
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