My plan for this week had been to regale you on my recent visit to the fragrant lavender fields of Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque in the hills of Provence. However, with the sudden death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, these memories have been supplanted with others. More specifically, with memories of my visit, a mere a month ago, to what will soon become the final resting place of this most notable monarch, Saint George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Along The Thames This pilgrimage came at the end of my first return to Europe since the outbreak of COVID-19. It was a journey that was planned around a week-long rowing…