When the prime minister made a visit to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, news reports portrayed her regularly scheduled audience with the queen as a grim milestone. A BBC report — in funereal tones suggesting that May, like some luckless historical figure, was about to be whisked away to the Tower of London for the coup de grâce — declared it would probably be one of her last trips through the palace gates.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 23, 2019 21:11 UTC