The Mourning Report

The death of Queen Elizabeth highlights the lack of a modern vernacular for grief.

Three veiled queens mourn HM George VI - his mother, wife, and daughter.

Upon the demise of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Britain entered a strange demi-world of half-remembered and half-improvised tradition. Old and new forms of mourning collided into a cocktail of the austere and the absurd, the solemn and the sentimental. This highlighted just…