The queen of England has died. Queen Elizabeth II was 96, and is, for nearly everyone alive today, the only head of the monarchy for England they have known.
The queen’s death ends the longest reign in British history, nearly 70 years, and she was also the world’s oldest head of state.
As her death was announced by Buckingham Palace, a crowd had gathered near the Queen Victoria Memorial outside the palace, and a double rainbow appeared in the sky.
“The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow,” Buckingham Palace said. Upon the queen’s death, her eldest son Charles, former Prince of Wales, has become the King of the United Kingdom and its 14 commonwealths.
The family had gathered at her bedside in the hours before her death at Balmoral Castle, in Scotland, and the Palace had signaled the gravity of her condition.
The queen, then Princess Elizabeth, had been the eldest of the king’s two daughters and next in line to succeed him, when, on a visit to Kenya, she learned of her father’s death.
“She became Queen while in a perch in a tree in Africa, watching the rhinoceros come down to the pool to drink,” wrote diplomat Harold Nicolson in his memoir.
She was crowned was Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, when she was 27 years old. She will be given a full state funeral befitting of a monarch. It’s also expected that her body will lie in state so the public can pay tribute.
Queen Elizabeth traveled the world on behalf of England and her royal duties.
“… her persona became only more towering as her personage dwindled. By instinct, constitution, and training, the Queen knew that what was demanded of her was an almost superhuman splitting of self. She was the hereditary ornament of the nation—as impractical as the Crown Jewels, with which her coronation had been celebrated. At the same time, her modus operandi was founded on a principle not of display but of concealment. For her own self-preservation, and for the preservation of the institution that she embodied and led, it was often wise to withdraw behind a gilded curtain,” The New Yorker wrote in its tribute.
Queen Elizabeth was born April 21, 1926 in the London home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, her maternal grandparents. At her birth, she was third in line to the throne, after Edward, the Prince of Wales.
“Edward became king, but he abdicated before the year was out, having provoked a constitutional crisis with his proposal to remain monarch while also marrying Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American socialite. On May 12, 1937, the date that had originally been planned for Edward’s coronation, it was George V’s second son, Bertie, now formally known as George VI, who went to Westminster Abbey to be crowned and anointed,” the magazine wrote. Elizabeth was 11 years old when her father became king.
On a fuel stopover for her jet in 1975 as she was returning to London from a trip to Japan, she was in Anchorage briefly, but she did not leave the plane.
I’m sorry to hear of her passing. She had a long run as monarch. For some reason I think with the help of the media, America has stayed close to Great Britain because of our past immigration. There’s currently more Scottish in America than there are in Scotland. I was never one of these fans, because we saved them twice in two world wars after having fought them twice for our own country. Churchill who was half American withheld information about Pearl harbor so that we would be forced to enter the war. But I do believe she was a nice lady so I wish her family the best.
She liked Sara. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Suzanne and must read. Sara Sara Sara
You spelled her name wrong. Ok. Ok. Ok?
Can you hold back a day or two?
Thx.
Mark
Note the admirable peaceful transfer of power.
China had a peaceful transfer of power too.
Comrade.
You aren’t fooling anyone.
‘Peaceful’ transfer isn’t important to your kind – only thing that matters is who gains power.
Feel free to denounce the Zelensky government in Ukraine and prove me wrong, though.
Or was that a ‘good’ violent transfer of power?
Well, there go the “agents” and “agencies” of the City of London not of public record in the USA furtively doing “business” outside of a ten-mile radius of DC without the required business licences within the 50 states of this nation. Goodbye, goodbye.
Right. ICC got a piece of evidence that has them seizing assets. Great Global Depression anyone?
Rest well, Majesty. You certainly earned it.
For royalty, Queen E. was an unusually wise and capable person. May she rest in peace.
Prince Charles, now King, is unusual, too, in an entirely different way.
I agree, but another time.
In related news: Biden has pledge 2 billion to Ukraine in remembrance of the Queen.
Also, rest in peace Queen Elizabeth. You brought grace, dignity and honor to the crown.
Her death was peaceful because the Queen lived as a believer in Jesus. The double rainbow an astounding humbling tribute. What are the odds of it on the day this woman left us, if it wasn’t our LORDs own tribute.
There you go again always looking for a sign. You don’t truly know anyone, only their public persona. It was a freak of nature that she got to be Queen in the first place. Was that also a sign? Things just happen in this world. Let’s face it, the true history of her family ain’t the best in the world. In the end she’s just a lady that everybody likes to think that somehow she’s their grandmother and people want to relish that and make her their own. There are worse ways to go out for sure.
Queen Elizabeth was pure class.
I shall put in a prayer.
I think She would have voted for Sarah Palin first, and Nick second.
Thot would be foreign influence though. Foreign influence is not (supposed to be) a thing; is it. Who would Italy prefer to assert; or Saudi Arabia, or Fuhrers at WEF? U-pick.
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