The late Queen Elizabeth II took a keen interest in the rise of conservative leader Charlie Kirk and his efforts to establish a youth movement in Britain, according to accounts from those close to the Turning Point founder.
Kirk, 31, who was assassinated last week during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University, had developed close ties in the United Kingdom through businessman John Mappin, heir to the Mappin & Webb jewellery family.
Mappin, one of the original financial backers of Turning Point UK, says the Queen was privately briefed on Kirk’s activities at Windsor Castle and expressed warm encouragement, according to London’s Telegraph.
I knew I liked her. I believe she sensed in Turning Point, and President Trump, something closer to the America she had known — rather than the utterly embarrassing, absurd, totalitarian nuthouse we have become. RIP Queen Elizabeth.