Mary Kenny
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II talks with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican in 2014. Photo: Vatican Media. We didn’t talk a lot about the British royal family when I was growing up in Dublin – those far-off days were before the era of mass media and talking about royalty wasn’t considered, understandably, a republican virtue. But I do recall, aged six, the occasion when Elizabeth II became Queen of England, in 1952,…
