Hello, royal watchers. This is your regular dose of royal news and analysis. Reading this online? Sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox.
There is no playbook for how to mark 70 years as monarch.
Add in a pandemic, family strife and other uncertainties, and it’s hard to gauge just how the unprecedented Platinum Jubilee will unfold for Queen Elizabeth.
“I think it will be, on the whole, a subdued celebration,” John Fraser, author of The Secret of the Crown: Canada’s Affair with Royalty, said in an interview.
“The whole business is compounded not just by the [coronavirus pandemic], but by
