God save the Queen, long live the King

[Richard Frost]

The Queen died this afternoon and her son Prince Charles acceded to the throne

[Sarah]

"Queen Elizabeth II has died, Buckingham Palace announces" (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61585886

[Sarah]

Clarence House has now confirmed that the new monarch will be known as King Charles III.

[Sarah]

There'll be a (pre-recorded) address to the nation by the King at 6pm today.

[macliam]

I mourn the sudden passing of someone who played their role on the world stage with grace, whether or not I agree with the system she represented. Perhaps we should all take the example of the way she mourned her own husband, with private thoughts and forbearance.

I hope her son will be able to do the same and will use his position to better the lives of others.

[Sarah]

William confirmed to be new Prince of Wales.

King Charles says that his son William will become Prince of Wales.

"As my heir, William now assumes the Scottish titles which have meant so much to me," he says.

"He succeeds me as Duke of Cornwall and takes on the responsibilities for the Duchy of Cornwall which I have undertaken for more than five decades.

"Today, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru, the country whose title I have been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty.

"With Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given."

[Richard Frost]

Historian Simon Schama. When he saw the Queen Perhaps someone who, “amid the drift and drone of the digital world”, stands for “anchorage and substance”, and who “come what may” will stick to“ promises long made, to the job at hand”, he suggests in the Financial Times. Schama saw just such a monarch “on a rain-lashed day in June 2012, aboard the royal barge, as crowds lined the bank of the Thames, determined, in a deeply British way, to celebrate the diamond jubilee”. During the “relentless drenching” beneath a “leaden London sky”, Schama writes, “I asked myself, ‘Why does she do it?’” The immediately obvious answer, he concludes, was “because she said she would, and because, really, what would Britain be, without her?”

The Week 9/9/22

Time will give the answer to the last question

[macliam]

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I like this:

[macliam]

nice.......