Watch the moment King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort, sign the proclamation at historic ceremony televised for the first time in history.https://t.co/j4TmL8pHZ7 pic.twitter.com/xwXIb8pwko
— ITV News (@itvnews) September 10, 2022
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The ignorance of Queen Elizabeth’s ‘anti-colonialist’ critics
In fact, a figure of such stability was essential to decolonization
As Alexander Larman writes, the passage of the Queen is not a tragedy.
No life lived so well, so dutifully, and with such faith in so many things now lost to us can be considered a tragedy. But it is nonetheless very sad, even for those of us in America — a nation she loved in so many ways.
Her death seems like another blow to another important institution of the West, undermined in recent decades by boomer proclivities and millennial narcissism, and likely to break into a thousand pieces in the absence of the old-world values Elizabeth represented.
The new King Charles III emerges to lead a nation in mourning
An emotional King Charles III emerged for the first time today as Britain’s new monarch as he left Balmoral to address the nation just hours after the death of his beloved mother.
Both the King and his Queen Consort Camilla were visibly upset as they left the Scottish estate to make their way to London just before 11.30am this morning.
Charles and his wife stayed at Balmoral overnight after racing up to be at the bedside of the Queen, whose death was announced to the nation yesterday evening.
Not sure I’ll get used to “King Charles.”
17 Days Mourning
Buckingham Palace’s flag is flown at half mast as the UK begins 17 days of mourning for The Queen. pic.twitter.com/roLBwJEOw0
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) September 9, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II has died, Buckingham Palace announces
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.
Her family gathered at her Scottish estate after concerns grew about her health earlier on Thursday.
The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.
With her death, her eldest son Charles, the former Prince of Wales, will lead the country in mourning as the new King and head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms.
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Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The moment history stops
This is the moment history stops; for a minute, an hour, for a day or a week; this is the moment history stops.
Across a life and reign, two moments from two very different eras illuminate the thread that bound the many decades together. At each a chair, a desk, a microphone, a speech. In each, that high-pitched voice, those clipped precise vowels, that slight hesitation about public speaking that would never quite seem to leave her.
One moment is sun-dappled, though the British people were suffering through a terrible post-war winter. A young woman, barely more than a girl really, sits straight-backed, her dark hair pulled up, two strings of pearls around her neck. Her youthful skin is flawless, she is very beautiful. A life opens out ahead of her.
Charles, Camilla and William head to Queen’s bedside in Balmoral as ‘concerned’ doctors keep her under medical supervision and news is broken to UK’s new PM Liz Truss
The Queen is under medical supervision after doctors became concerned for her health this morning, Buckingham Palace revealed today, as the Prince of Wales, Camilla and the Duke of Cambridge to be with the 96-year-old monarch.
Her Majesty’s immediate family members have been informed about the downturn, her spokesman said, leading to her two heirs – Charles and William – going to her bedside amid escalating fears for the monarch’s wellbeing.
Prince Andrew and Princess Anne are both expected in Scotland with one of the Royal Family’s helicopters landing in the grounds of Her Majesty’s Scottish home this morning.
Oh oh…
He simply can’t need £1 million that badly, he’s the Prince of Wales
(The purportedly most reactionary man in Britain has had it, so who am I to argue?)
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Canada’s Monarchy Problem
On June 5th 2022, Canada’s 96-year-old Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II (her full title, per the Royal Style and Titles Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. R-12): “Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith”) appeared at her Platinum Jubilee pageant riding in the Gold State Coach, “an opulent 260-year-old gilded horse-drawn carriage” built in 17621. Surrounding the coach were the four postilions, nine walking grooms, six footmen, and four Yeoman of the Guard carrying their long partisans. Eight of the grooms walked beside the horses. The more ornately dressed footmen walked beside the body of the coach2. Emanating out from this inner sanctum was a throng of endless ceremonial figures, police officers, journalists and adoring spectators taking photos and videos.
There was only one problem: the gilded carriage was empty. Or rather, the situation was even stranger. It contained only a hologram. An image of Her Royal Majesty captured at her 1953 Coronation (70 years ago) waved mechanically at the dutifully assembled crowd, standing in for the increasingly absent hereditary monarch of 15 countries and territories worldwide, including Canada, the most populous nation ruled by the British Monarchy outside the United Kingdom.
Prince Andrew settles with Virginia Giuffre out of court for an undisclosed amount
Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre reach out-of-court settlement over civil sex assault claim filed in US https://t.co/1w29LTnFvu
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) February 15, 2022
Prince Andrew reaches ‘settlement in principle’ with his accuser Virginia Roberts in US civil sex case: Duke ‘regrets association with Epstein’ and promises to make amends with donation to victims’ charity but DOES NOT admit sex assault
Ghislaine Maxwell will no longer fight to keep names of 8 ‘John Does’ secret
A lawyer for Maxwell stated in a letter to federal Judge Loretta Preska this week that she would no longer object to the identities of the “John Does” in a 2015 civil lawsuit brought against Maxwell by Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre.
Prince Andrew loses military titles and patronages, and will no longer be called HRH
The Duke of York’s military titles and royal patronages have been returned to the Queen, Buckingham Palace has announced.
Prince Andrew will also stop using the style His Royal Highness in an official capacity, a royal source added.
The duke’s roles will be distributed among members of the Royal Family.
Republicans to Royal Family: Strip Meghan Markle of Title for Meddling in Politics
Republicans have demanded that Meghan Markle should “stick to acting” and even urged the British Royal Family to strip her of her title if she continues to interfere with American politics.
Where is MI5 when you need it? (To rescue this poor hostage. Or, you know, whatever.)
📚The book, to be released late next year, will share the “definitive account” of the Duke of Sussex's “experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons”https://t.co/Ip1ArGigei
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 19, 2021