OPINION: A spontaneous gathering and piles of bouquets from Britons mourning Thursday's death of Queen Elizabeth reminds columnist Brett Arends of the outpouring of grief for Princess Diana more than two decades ago.
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II hadn’t been dead for more than a couple of hours, and already it was turning into a scene outside Buckingham Palace in central London on Thursday.
See: Queen Elizabeth II: The end of an era in which Britain was marked by decolonization, the loss of Empire and a rebirth under a media-friendly generation Will it happen again? We shall have to wait and see. Much has changed since 1997, but none of it for the good. Today it is not only the press and the TV that fuel mass hypnosis, but the internet, social media and the inaptly named “smartphones” that have turned our modern world into an age of rolling panics, crises, tantrums and hysterias.
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