Commonwealth and world leaders were in London on this date in 2022 for the state funeral for Her Majesty the Queen. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lead a high-power Canadian delegation that included past Prime Ministers Campbell, Harper and Martin in paying tribute to Canada’s Queen. Her Majesty had died at Balmoral a few weeks earlier at age 96, ending her remarkable 70-year reign.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.