Today, Bloomberg remembers the question the Queen asked me at the LSE during the financial crisis. I add for context a contemporary account and discussion of the episode by Alain Beatty in the @ft https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-09/what-s-happening-in-the-world-economy-how-uk-changed-under-queen-elizabeth-ii?cmpid=BBD090922_NEF&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=220909&utm_campaign=nef