Angela Merkel’s Heart

When Calais, a city once (almost) as English as Ceuta is Spanish, fell to the French in 1558, England’s regrettable Queen Mary (who may have inspired the naming of a certain cocktail) may have said that when she was “dead and opened, you shall find ‘Calais’ lying in my heart.” Given her part in the city’s loss, that would have been only fair.

And so to Germany’s second-most-regrettable chancellor, Angela Merkel.

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Andrew Stuttaford

Andrew Stuttaford is the editor of National Review's Capital Matters.

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When Calais, a city once (almost) as English as Ceuta is Spanish, fell to the French in 1558, England’s regrettable Queen Mary (who may have inspired the naming of a certain cocktail) may have said that when she was “dead and opened, you shall find ‘Calais’ lying in my heart.” Given her part in the city’s loss, that would have been only fair.

And so to Germany’s second-most-regrettable chancellor, Angela Merkel.