Showing posts with label Queen Elizabeth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen Elizabeth. Show all posts

Friday, September 09, 2022

Today's News: The Queen is dead. Long live the King.

What an amazing number of places she went and people she met! This thread shows many of them:
 [*full disclosure: I met the Queen once, like 35+ years ago, at a reception for journalists on the Royal Yacht Britannia. Somewhere tucked away I still have the nametag and the security clearance from that day.] Of all the photos ever taken of the Queen, I found this one to be the most moving -- when she had to mourn Phillip alone: I know Diana was called The People's Princess, but Elizabeth was no slouch in that department either: Irish Twitter was something today: