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  "path": "/issues/2026-4-25/the-strange-afterlife-of-queen-elizabeth-ii",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  The one you never knew: Queen Elizabeth II attends a state banquet in 1977.\n\n##### Four years after her death, the Queen has faded from the public consciousness with surprising speed. But as the code of silence loosens and archives open, a sharper portrait is beginning to emerge\n\nBy Craig Brown\n\nAfter the death of Queen Elizabeth II, there were those who felt the world had turned into a different place, somewhere scarier and less dependable. The registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists spoke of people feeling “shocked, anxious, or fearful about changes they don’t feel prepared for, or deep feelings of loss and sadness”. A YouGov poll concluded that 44 percent of adult Britons had shed a tear at the news: 55 percent of women and 32 percent of men.\n\nYou would have to have been over 100 years old to remember a world without her. She was famous from the moment she was born and made the cover of READ ON",
  "title": "The Strange Afterlife of Queen Elizabeth II"
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