Dreaming of the Queen

Many people had vivid dreams about the late Queen Elizabeth, and some believed they had dreamt of her death before it happened. TARAS YOUNG scanned a year’s worth of Twitter posts in search of possibly precognitive tweets…

Until her death aged 96 in September this year, Queen Elizabeth II was a constant figure in public life. Spanning seven decades, her reign corresponded with both a worldwide population boom and the information age, making her undoubtedly one of the most ‘seen’ figures in human history. From coins and stamps, to her annual Christmas speech, to being groped by inept cop Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun and defaced in Jamie Reid’s iconic artwork for the Sex Pistols, the public image of Elizabeth II was hard to avoid and has become firmly lodged in the global psyche. While there is no substantive way to quantify the extent to which Her Majesty invaded our most intimate thoughts, it’s not a stretch to believe that the Queen must have been one…

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