It’s not just the Queen that we have lost

I am no royalist, not even British. Nor was I born before, during or immediately after the second world war, but it couldn’t have been said better: the death of the Queen feels huge for exactly the reason Frank Cottrell-Boyce points out (Opinion, 16 September): with her died the last Zeitzeuge of a time when humans were determined to build better societies. Anette Magnussen London, England, UK