The Virtues of Restraint, Duty, Grace and Persistence

Queen Elizabeth was a constitutional monarch for a country that has a constitution, but didn't write it down. There's an efficient part of the british constitution, prime ministers and parliaments, and there's a dignified part. I fear that everything she exemplified, restraint, duty, grace, reticence, persistence, are disappearing from this world. We're not going to see, and probably ever, a reign like hers.