Out of the Mouths of Babes

The Queen's March

One morning, I was helping my son practice a piece on the piano called "The Queen's March." It was sounding pretty good, and I said so. "Yeah, it's okay," my son replied. "It's kind of a weird song, though."

"Weird? Why?"

"The title," he said.

"What's weird about the title?"

"Well, why is it just the queen's march? Wouldn't the king be there, too?"

Ah -- an educational opportunity! "Well, some queens ruled without kings, you know."

My perfectly egalitarian son's eyes bugged. "Like who?"

"Queen Elizabeth," I said. "Not the one who's queen now -- the one in Shakespeare's time. She never married. She was very proud of being queen on her own."

"She didn't have a king?"

"No."

"She never ever got married?"

"Uh-uh."

His brow furrowed. "Didn't she even have, like, a roommate or anything?"

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