Queen Elizabeth II attended a service of the Order of the British Empire in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, in 2012.Credit...Geoff Pugh/Daily Telegraph, via Associated Press LONDON — From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II, England was an empire. No more. Brexit has turned the twilight years of the reign of Elizabeth II into the final chapter in the history of Great Britain. What its partisans, celebrating
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