The Star-Spangled Banner

Her Majesty sent a letter via the ambassador in which she used a phrase that she later used at the death of her husband, Prince Philip. She said, grief is the price we pay for luck. And I remember sitting in the name of that church, and you remember well how New York felt in September of 2001. Dust, death, resilience, yes, but a stillness to the city. It was a remarkable phrase. In many ways, almost more than scripture in the Book of Common Prayer in that moment, captured something.