trick for a woman of exercising profound influence without inciting backlash, in part because the scope of that influence remains so shrouded in mystery. she did not so much normalize the idea of a woman in charge as make the nation largely forget that that was what she was while retaining the ability to freeze grown men with a look. your thoughts? yes, that is absolutely true. and i ll tell you one significant parts of the way that her power and influence functions, which is that she is an absolute expert and an expert in crisis management. and one thing that she understands that a great many politicians and public do not understand is that you cannot tell people what to think and what they should think of you . you know, what the queen understood was that you have to show people through your actions. and we saw that really recently at prince bennett s funeral when she made the decision that she would sit alone and have a koven compliant funeral and that showed her people that