The Queen inhabits the subconscious of her subjects, republican or royalist. Dreams about her are so common that they have even been published in anthologies. From 1843 magazine
hen North Korea wept for Kim Jong Il, the rest of the world sniggered. It was one of the oddest spectacles of 2011 . Citizen battalions reporting to their nearest bronze effigy to fill the air with lamentation. News footage that caught the mourners like an opera chorus addressing the people in the cheap seats.
This is happening, too, in a United Kingdom mourning a dead queen. Ritual has asserted its power over the business of government and everyday life. Dormant protocols have germinated, like monarchist seeds beneath the snow. Some of these are deep and old, established in the days when the transition between rulers was defined by the movement of divine power from one human body to another.
That second choice, the rejection of history, also has a history. Many modern Europeans may look back with disgust on 19th-century rituals of mourning: the formalised and capitalised business of public sadness with its death-masks, black-edged notepaper and jewellery spun from the hair of the deceased. But such customs were not observed universally.
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