Queen Elizabeth Dead At 96
Via NBC:
Queen Elizabeth II, whose 70-year reign spanned wars, a pandemic, 14 U.S. presidents and the winding down of Britain’s vast empire, has died. Her eldest son, Charles, is now king.
“The queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” the royal family said in a statement. “The king and the queen consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.”
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II who ruled for more than 70 years, the United Kingdom has been plunged into mourning and at least 10 days of solemn ceremony.
Few alive anywhere in the world will have witnessed anything like the carefully orchestrated and detailed plan, including gun salutes, bells pealing across the land and millions gathered to pay tribute.
Codenamed London Bridge, the plan for the queen’s funeral has been years in the making and stage-manages an otherwise uncertain few weeks for the nation from the succession to a new king to a period of national mourning, the queen’s funeral and the eventual coronation of her eldest son, Charles, 73, according to advance briefings with Buckingham Palace officials.
Britain is now in a period of official national mourning that lasts until the queen’s funeral.
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—Collection of 70 photographs covering her 70-year reign.
—New Monarch: King Charles III.
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