As the Queen of Hearts she hoped to become, she acquired millions of subjects who loved her with such intensity that the most profound grief has today flowed onto the streets, into the churches, around cancelled football games, carrying mountains of flowers to the gates of the royal palaces and filling airtime as completely and as surely as it will fill all available column inches in the weeks ahead. As a star she illuminated our dull world briefly with a unique brilliance and is now gone. She deserved longer. Her loved ones deserved her longer. Her subjects deserved her longer.
Tragedies do repeat themselves.
Let this one not.