'I shed a tear when I heard the Queen died - Britain has lost its rock', says piersmorgan
decamped to Balmoral in Scotland as the nation descended into grief, and Her Majesty was personally attacked for the first time anyone could remember for refusing to lower the flag at Buckingham Palace, and for making no personal address to the nation.
The next morning, the Queen came back to London, lowered the flag, and spoke to the nation without her famous tiara. In the end, the buck did indeed stop with her. And she stopped a multitude of circles on a daily basis. She had 15 Prime Ministers during her reign, and I’ve spoken to three of them - Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - about her.
"She’s so intelligent," agreed Brown, "and never hesitated to challenge me about something if she didn’t agree."The Queen had a remarkable ability to instantly grasp the importance and seriousness of any problem, nationally or globally, and react accordingly.
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