Posted on 09/08/2022 12:24:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The longest-serving monarch in the history of the United Kingdom and the second-longest-serving monarch in history has passed away. Queen Elizabeth II was 96. The palace announced that the queen “died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.”
At her birth, Elizabeth was third in line to the throne, behind her uncle Edward and her father. When her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated the throne in 1936, her father became King George VI.
From an early age, Elizabeth dedicated herself to a life of service, making speeches as a teenager and serving an honorary role in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II, where she learned to drive and do mechanical work on cars. On VE Day, she and her sister Margaret mingled with the crowds, going unrecognized among the throngs of exuberant celebrants. She later told an interviewer, “We asked my parents if we could go out and see for ourselves. I remember we were terrified of being recognised…”
In 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, Prince of Greece and Denmark, who became a British subject and was granted the title Duke of Edinburgh and later Prince. Their marriage lasted until his death in April 2021. They had four children, including Prince Charles, who now becomes king.
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And now, Charles....
Charles hates modern architecture, so he has that going for him.
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that’s odd since he married such a fixer upper dump
She promised to serve England until the end. RIP dear lady.
The Queen is dead.
Long live the king
Really? I hadn't heard.
RIP your Majesty. You were one of a kind.
As monarchs go, she wasn’t too bad.
Wow what a day of days, R.I.P.
She died AGAIN?
Dang, poor old broad was 96 and you goobers got her croaking
at least a dozen times today. She ain’t even cold yet and y’all
are working her like a rented mule.
The United Kingdom should have ended the monarchy with her. Charles and his progeny are all a bunch of entitled brats.
First became aware of Elizabeth while watching her coronation at a neighbor’s house. Asked Mom why the new Queen was crying. That’s when I learned about royal succession. Now, she is gone.
Rest In Peace, ER II
Do you ever have anything positive to say? You are nothing but a grumpy old troll.
Long live the king
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Not that one. I wish he would pass.
Amen. Modernism is nothing other than a rejection of tradition, of history, of all that we ever have been. I think I cemented my repugnance in the modern wing of the National Gallery of Art when I arrived at “Black Canvass Number 34”. What a joke!
By pass, I didn’t mean die; I meant pass on taking the title. Just wanted to clarify.
God save the Queen
The world has lost its grandmother
It will be harder for James Bond smooze the monarchy with a new king.
Now it’s His Majesty’s Secret Service.
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