The End and a new era

Exiting the week here with a short post as I'm not feeling too great  looking back at the Queen's life, the very things we will remember her for even if the earliest were not things I personally lived through.

Time was when I had scrapbooks of Royal connected pictures and that but they've been missing for a good few decades, probably some "you won't need this" tidying up session but this is the next nearest thing.

Reminds me a bit of schools posters.

Funeral was long with separate stages beautifully choreographed, everyone with a role looking spotless, rich in symbolism even if ultimately sad as I got through a number of tissues.

Hundreds of thousands turned out to pay their respects, 26 million saw live coverage on tv, the weather held up for an event that was unmistakably British as much as others from he commonwealth to which she was Queen played a part.

We will miss her.

LONG LIVE THE KING!

Upon the death of our Queen

Yesterday seemed very much like any other but sadly it was not to be.

In the afternoon it was announced Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IInd had died aged 96 years and so we enter a period of ten days of mourning for our Head of State.

In that time she served with a exceptional sense of duty visiting much of the Commonwealth, supporting many organizations, hosting meetings with leaders the world over and playing her role within the Constitution of the United Kingdom appointing Prime Ministers, holding meetings with them, opening Parliament and so on.

The planned post for today was to had been about the appointment of our new Prime Minister but rightly this takes its place.

Thank You for your service.

No doubt we will hear more from our King, Charles III in days and weeks ahead.