'We should be able to say the Queen wasn't a hero to those who know the horrors of British rule' ✍️ meemalee for ipaperviews
Nearly 26 years later, I’m dropping my nine-year-old off at a birthday party at a local bowling alley. The scoreboard screens that usually throb with jaunty animationsannouncing the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. The pins still crash and the children still laugh raucously, oblivious to the message above their heads.
My six-year-old brings home a crumpled, printed-out condolences card from school, the front of which he’s coloured in approximately 20 per cent. The inside is blank, so I’m not sure who it’s meant to be for – us, his parents, mourning the loss of our sovereign? He has no idea. The year above him is asked to write about their feelings on pieces of paper. His sister tells me her class was asked if they were shocked about the Queen dying.
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