What surprised me more than anything was remembering how the Queen’s presence had inserted herself in the life of our family in spite of having no direct connection whatsoever
I’m one of the many who got up at 5:30 in the morning to watch Queen Elizabeth’s final journey. It was not something I planned, but my sister and a friend were visiting, and they were determined to watch. So, I rose and joined them. It wasn’t exactly riveting television. The BBC broadcast was more like a series of tableau paintings than television.
The Queen came to incarnate Englishness, which was important to my mother, who, in spite of marrying a French Canadian Catholic and raising three Canadian children, also remained fundamentally English. She attended Church of England services no matter where she might be, never lost her English accent and had that stubborn English sense of fairness that leads to boycotting bullfights and protesting nuclear weapons.
Her neighbours were thrilled, but no one had ever asked Dolly if she wanted to go to London to meet the Queen. She did not. She wasn’t fond of London, she was busy with her chickens and such, and couldn’t be bothered. Dolly’s neighbours did their best to persuade her to go, but Dolly Oliver was her own woman and remained adamant. She wasn’t interested in meeting the Queen.
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