In fact, the Mirrenised, which is to say the ever more idealised monarch of public wishfulness, may partly account for the consternation, last week, when the publication of a group photograph of the holders of her Order of Merit suggested that the Queen is not, after all, much of a feminist.
Yet however much the disciplined monarch in public, in private the undoubted queen has an unexpected streak of vanity.
Under dynastic rule, the private affairs of the monarch are public spectacles, while the affairs of state are kept in secret.
To this day we have a healthy disrespect for authority and this manifests itself in our habit of sitting statues of monarchs atop public toilets.
Several countries, including Germany, Italy, and Morocco, have laws prohibiting insults to monarchs and public officials, but rights groups say that Thailand's lèse majesté laws are some of the strictest in the world.
(The consensus between critics, politicians, monarchs and public seemed to be that another poorly received Bond film would be the end of us, so everyone said it was better than the Crucifixion when actually it was kind of a Dark Knight rip off. Though the bit in Battleship Island was cool).
The goal is to restore or protect 200,000 acres of monarch habitat on public and private lands, as well as build 750 habitats and gardens at schools across the country.
FWS will review published research on monarchs and consider public comment to determine if the butterflies are in danger of extinction in the near future.
But he acknowledged that the monarch's fear of public speaking could have broad appeal.
It quoted a cabinet source as saying Britain's longest reigning monarch "is the biggest public weapon you have.
The 89-year-old monarch appeared briefly in public on Sunday morning as she made her way by car from Windsor Castle to a nearby church.
