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4.5
That's such a ridiculous title, isn't it? One can't (or I can't imagine anyway) Her Majesty having a best friend, unless Princess Margaret or Prince Philip can be counted. She's just not that sort of person; and THAT'S the intriguing thing: what kind of person lives without friends? HOW does someone live a life that is so separate, so different from everyone else's? Oh, I know she has "friends", people she's known all her life and invites to Sandringham & Windsor & Balmoral for weekends, etc., etc. But there's no one who's really really close to her, no one she can confide in or just ring up for a bit of gossip. She's just not like that. So what is she really like? The more one reads about her, the more one feels one is slowly forming a picture of her. There's also the corollary to this idea that we can never know what she's really like - the fact that she doesn't seem to want anyone to really know her. Or doesn't even think in that way. It's all very strange. I think that, far from being one of the most boring people in the world, as so many people seem to believe, Elizabeth II is one of the most fascinating people living today.
