This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I am Fareed Zakaria, coming to you live from outside Buckingham Palace in London.

We will begin today's program with the passing of Britain's longest serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II.

I guess and I will reflect on this one monarch's great legacy.

And the many challenges the new sovereign, Charles III, must now face.

It's high, nice to meet you. Very nice to meet you.

Then I travel to Kiev this week to talk to the man in the crucible of the 21st centuries more in Europe.

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky.

This war.

We sat down for wide-ranging conversation.

We talked about Ukraine's ability to counter Russia's attack.

Kiev's big new push in the South and East.

Whether he and his nation are ready, it this turns into a long fight.

The president Zelensky and I went for a walk outside and I had to ask him,

wasn't he worried that Putin might target me?

It doesn't matter for me because we can't afraid or can't be afraid of Kiev.

But first, here's my take.

For me, the most striking aspect of Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign was her iron determination to be boring.

Bear with me.

In those seven decades, she rarely lets slip her views about any of the great political and public events over which she presided.

She never even hinted at her views on any of the glivering public figures with whom she dealt.

We don't know what she thought of Donald Trump or Barack Obama or Margaret Attcher and we never will.

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