Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned over the United Kingdom and fourteen other commonwealth realms for 70 years, was buried following a state funeral on 19 September 2022. The monarchy in Britain and other commonwealth countries is difficult to define and explain, largely because for almost all of living memory it has been personified by one person. Queen Elizabeth was not interventionist in politics. She was not domestically controversial. She met the first fourteen prime ministers she ruled over every Wednesday for a discussion, which always remained private. The monarch was given a heavy flow o…