Mary Poppins<\/em> and Dick Van Dykes\u2019 strange shot a Cockney.\u00a0 Anyway, I love the best of England, and I admire this woman who has been so many things to so many people.\u00a0 Like a cherished Renaissance painting in a modern home, she somehow links to the past.\u00a0 I\u2019m not confident that her posterity will carry the mantle as well as she has these past decades.\u00a0 But in any event, this is her hour, and I wish her the best, and may the best that she has to offer spill over into a country in dire need of anything good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well done Your Majesty.\u00a0 I\u2019m a bit of an Anglophile, I admit.\u00a0 Though I\u2019m proud of my own country\u2019s bid for independence, there\u2019s a part of me that can look past the never ending trashing of the worst of England\u2019s history and see sparkles of goodness.\u00a0 It was, after all, the land of Chaucer, Shakespeare, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>Well done Your Majesty<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m a bit of an Anglophile, I admit.\u00a0 Though I\u2019m proud of my own country\u2019s bid for independence, there\u2019s a part of me that can look past the never ending trashing of the worst of England\u2019s history and see sparkles of goodness.\u00a0 It was, after all, the land of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats,Tennyson, Churchill, Tolkien, Lewis.\u00a0 The lanes of Oxford, the moors, the English Countryside.\u00a0 Mary Poppins<\/em> and Dick Van Dykes\u2019 strange shot a Cockney.\u00a0 Anyway, I love the best of England, and I admire this woman who has been so many things to so many people.\u00a0 Like a cherished Renaissance painting in a modern home, she somehow links to the past.\u00a0 I\u2019m not confident that her posterity will carry the mantle as well as she has these past decades.\u00a0 But in any event, this is her hour, and I wish her the best, and may the best that she has to offer spill over into a country in dire need of anything good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"