Opinion by Autumn Brewington | Post Elizabeth: The U.K.'s national mourning period is about more than the queen
Unofficially, there is more to these regimented steps: They honor the last sovereign and set the table for the new one. They are also a mechanism forgrief — an unfamiliar experience for people who have lost loved ones since the pandemic began.
The people pouring onto streets, milling around royal residences and preparing to stand in line for 22 hours to file past the queen’s coffin are telling journalists a variety of things: They didn’t know the queen but respected her service. They met her once or admired her from afar. She was better than the politicians. These are interpretations of a constant now lost.
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