The queen’s death comes at a moment of great uncertainty for Britain.

There is no analogous British figure who will be mourned as deeply, or whose death will provoke a greater reckoning with the identity and future of the country.

Long an Uneasy Prince, King Charles III Takes On a Role He Was Born To

Once an awkward, self-doubting young man, he comes to the throne, at 73, as a self-assured, gray-haired eminence.