The death of the British sovereign was announced Thursday at 6:30 p.m. by Buckingham Palace. A national mourning of ten days opens from Friday.
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The United Kingdom is in mourning. 96 years old, Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday, September 8, in the afternoon, in Balmoral, in the Highlands, her Scottish summer residence which she cherished so much.
With his disappearance, the British lose much more than an exceptionally popular sovereign. They lose more that a monarch having known the longest reign in the history of the country: he lasted seventy years, since his accession to the throne on the death of his father, King George VI in 1952 – his jubilee of Platinum, last spring, was the occasion for a big national holiday.
The British also mourns a planetary figure, whose presence continues and reassuring alongside them since the end of the Second World War – on their television screens, the pages of their newspapers or their banknotes – had ended up making it difficult to imagine. At the end of the war, a young bride and mother, she embodied this symbol of vigor whose country, the bloodless, was rightly needed. Still there after the Suez Canal crisis, in 1956, the dismantling of the Empire, the great strikes of the late 1970s, the end of the Cold War, imperturbable despite scandals and family torments, it had become this Symbol of stability that the country lacked.
Ceased for his sense of duty and his dignity, Elizabeth II reassured, especially since the United Kingdom left the European Union, and while he is still looking for his place in the world and continues governments. After the very colorful mandate of Boris Johnson, that of Liz Truss, who started three days ago on September 5, is the fourth in six years. For all these reasons, the disappearance of the queen will probably arouse many feelings of loss, even emptiness, in the country.
a highly unusual declaration
Her eldest son, Charles, Prince of Wales, immediately became the death of his mother King Charles III, as the national constitutional tradition wants. During a first statement to the country, the new sovereign said that this disappearance was “a moment of great sadness” for him and his family and that the loss of the queen would be “deeply felt” worldwide.
A ten -day national mourning opens from Friday September 9, as part of a choreographed operation for years by the Buckingham Palace, called “Operation London Bridge”.
The country’s editors stopped breathing around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, when Buckingham Palace made a highly unusual declaration: “Queen doctors are worried about the health of His Majesty and recommended that ‘She stays under medical supervision. The queen does not suffer and stays in Balmoral. “
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