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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
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There Was One Part of Modern Royal Engagements That Queen Elizabeth Couldn’t Stand—and Princess Anne Has Thoughts on It, Too

Queen Elizabeth

September 8 is approaching, and we’re missing Queen Elizabeth, okay? If anyone was as good at their job as she was, we don’t know who they are—after all, she perfected being a monarch over the course of 70 years on the throne. But there was one part of the role in modern days that drove her mad: whereas in the past at walkabouts she would see a sea of faces, in her latter years as Queen, all she saw was a swath of cell phones, desperate to snap a photo of her rather than take her in as she stood in front of them.

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