Longest Reign Ends:

 Queen Elizabeth's death has triggered all kinds of comments, both complimentary and otherwise everywhere from every person with an opinion.

Those included her duties toward the empire as well as criticisms of prolonging a system of government from the Dark Ages. 

Criticisms probably the most ignorant and unwarranted came from some academics in the US. These had the effect of proving that education does not make people with ignorant outlooks smart.

Elizabeth did not become head of the British Parliamentary system by choice. She was drafted. It was the result of a train of events that left her holding the bag.

George, her father, was drafted when his older brother and designated monarch abdicated, whether by personal choice or by administration's advice, we will never know. Suffice to say, he is reported to have seen nothing much wrong with what Hitler was attempting to do out on the continent.

King George expired after a short reign, leaving his eldest child the designated choice. So whether  or not she looked forward to it, Elizabeth was drafted. Now she was head of an imperial administration that assumed the chore of trying to bring into the modern world cultures that had yet to evolve actual writing, or even the wheel.

For this, she is being criticised by modern trained academics from those very cultures.