Elizabeth II
King Charles III must do better than his mother on colonialism and reparations. Will he?
Why couldn’t the new monarch take on the burden of his family’s errors, as well as the generational privilege he so readily accepts?
Pritika Chowdhry
Opinion contributor
Updated Sept. 16, 2022, 10:21 a.m. ET
The passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, is being talked about as “the end of an era” and a moment for grief and heartache.