Maya Jasanoff: Mourn the queen, but not her empire

Elizabeth II helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged.

(Carl T. Gossett Jr. | The New York Times) Queen Elizabeth takes part in the annual Trooping the Color ceremony in London on June 13, 1964. Queen Elizabeth, who inherited the throne at age 25 in 1952 and became Britain's longest-serving monarch, died on Sept. 8, 2022. She was 96.

Maya Jasanoff: Mourn the queen, but not her empire

Elizabeth II helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged.

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