Brigitte Empire | Why You Feel Like You Knew the Queen @BrigitteEmpire | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
The Queen is dead, but the person people are talking about on TV, mourning in public, is not the same Queen that just died. The image of the Queen, the parasocial idea of the nation's wise, stoic grandma has officially been retired with the death of Elizabeth Windsor, the person behind the symbol, and she is much more complicated a person than the squeaky-clean image we have been fed.

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Videos referenced in-essay:
Shannon Strucci: youtube.com/watch?v=x3vD_CAYt4g
Philosophy Tube: youtube.com/watch?v=3IG0Y63LkDM&t=6s
Renegade Cut: youtube.com/watch?v=X3_cNIxgGGY
Wine and Chill: youtube.com/watch?v=rNyTzLPl0B0&t=13s
Mayowa's World: youtube.com/watch?v=qLD6lZbI5AI
The Leftist Cooks: youtube.com/watch?v=XScO4R-Torg