Bells have tolled around Britain and mourners are flocking to palace gates to honor Queen Elizabeth II as the country prepared for a new age under a new king. britain uk queenelizabethii kingcharlesiii
As the second Elizabethan Age came to a close, hundreds of people arrived through the night to grieve together outside the gates of Buckingham Palace and other royal residences, as well as British embassies worldwide. Some came simply to pause and reflect.
“It’s just such a momentous change that is going to happen,” she said. “I’m trying to hold it together today.” The queen's coffin will be brought to London, where she is expected to lie in state before a funeral at Westminster Abbey, expected around Sept. 19.Elizabeth was Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of constancy in a turbulent era that saw the decline of the British empire and disarray in her scandal-plagued family.
For some, Elizabeth was a queen whose coronation glittered with shards of a stunning 3,106-carat diamond pulled from grim southern African mines, a monarch who inherited an empire they resented.
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