“When someone does a job supremely well, as she did hers, it looks easy,” the biographer argues in a guest essay for The Economist. “She will be a very, very difficult act to follow”
, that she was personally so well-suited to the role of constitutional monarch? Or did she make herself become the figure who performed this modest office so well? Nearly all other jobs in the world can be defined in the positive terms of what is required.
In African politics, she was sometimes bolder. Consider 1961. Despite bombs in Accra, Ghana’s capital, shortly before a royal tour of the country, she decided to visit anyway. She even danced with Kwame Nkrumah, the man who led his country to independence: a clever move, since a dance says a lot—only without words.
When you list the positive requirements for the job, the queen was also singularly well-equipped. In a country which still has the “Trooping the Colour” parade, it helps if the head of state can ride a horse. She first undertook this task when her father, King George VI, was still alive. She looked magnificent.
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