Queen Elizabeth II (Update: the Queen has passed) (1 Viewer)

My oldest ( history student ) and I were just texting about and she brought up the fact that during Queen Elizabeths reign, she saw 14 DIFFERENT US PRESIDENTS.

Wow.




Also SEVEN popes…. she was queen even before my dad was born.. and im not young !
 
Well, that changes the whole flavor of what ye olde Englandy is going to be like for the Saints game, huh? Weird timing, this, for me. My first time in England was during her silver jubilee!
 
I feel strangely emotional. I'm not really an anglophile and have no real interest in the royals. I know her position was complicated and included some of the nastiness of the 20th Century.

But she was the Queen for 21 years before I was even born, and my kids know who she is. It's quite remarkable and I feel like some little part of the world that I know, the world that has been in place my whole life, has passed on into history.

It's sad in its own way. The UK will be in mourning and I send my sympathies to the nation and all who treasured Queen Elizabeth II as their monarch, whether in law, tradition, or simply in their own hearts.
Me, too. I AM sort of an anglophile. Not as much as I used to be, but I was the one who desperately wanted to go there and so we went in 1977. We are going for the Saints game again and this will be my third time.
 
His Majesty the King. That’s going to take a while to get use to hearing. Long live the King and salute to the former Queen Elizabeth.
 

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