I was thinking about that the other day and I don’t think there are many 70-year spans in England that wouldn’t give you a sense of radical change at one level (civil wars etc) but yes urbanism was a big moment of acceleration.
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I think this is part of why most of the best-regarded monarchs are those with the longest reigns. Partly they become familiar to so many more people, but they become an easily-remembered anchor in the context of lots of other things changing.
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Yeah I’ve talked to Belgian friends who saw King Boudewijn’s death in 1990 after 40 years as a real milestone.
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