When I think of the late Queen this time of the year, I think of an age that is lost. An age of clean tradition and aristocracy in the true sense of the word; of honesty, public spirit, honour and above all, courage. I think of the Queen particularly at Christmas because her simple faith and Christian spirit shone in contrast to the appetites of the plutocracy in which we live, in which there is no higher striving than the striving for what money can buy us. The Queen, curiously, never cared muc
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