On September 8, 2022, Buckingham Palace reported that Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning queen in British history, had passed away at age 96.
Under "Operation London Bridge," a 10-day national mourning period has been announced.
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Charles, her oldest son, ascends to the kingdom after her death.
Alexandra Elizabeth Mary Windsor served as monarchs before Elizabeth II. Simply put, she was The Queen.
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She was the one constant in a world of mind-boggling change for billions of people,
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n omnipresent matriarch connecting the past with the present.
Her metaphorical power continued to increase even as the vast British Empire she once ruled diminished
helped along by movies like The Queen and the Netflix series The Crown.
She managed to make a medieval anachronism seem somewhat current, a stoic old lady in a hat onto whom so much might be projected, against the grain of history and logic.