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It was widespread data that the queen was slowing down, sporadic mobility points conserving her from showing in public as a lot as traditional and the April 2021 dying of her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, sapping her of a few of her traditional vitality.
But it surely was nonetheless an enormous blow when she died on Sept. 8, simply two days after inviting the fifteenth prime minister of her reign, already-now-former PM Liz Truss, to kind a authorities. The queen’s passing was formally attributed to outdated age.
Soccer video games have been postponed, companies closed and 1000’s of individuals left flowers, notes and different mementos outdoors all the queen’s properties—Londoners at one level have been requested to please cease paying homage to her skit with Paddington Bear by leaving marmalade sandwiches outdoors Buckingham Palace—as a interval of nationwide mourning commenced.
The queen, who died at Balmoral Fortress, her Scottish residence, first lay in state at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh earlier than she was transported to London’s Westminster Corridor, the place the queue to view her coffin stretched for miles and even David Beckham waited greater than 13 hours to pay his respects. The BBC maintained a dwell feed of the solemn however touching scene, which at totally different factors included the queen’s 4 youngsters standing sentry and her eight grandchildren gathering for a silent vigil, up till the funeral procession to Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19.
An estimated 29.2 million people in the U.K. reportedly watched the state funeral on TV, and 11.4 million tuned in from the U.S., however neither determine consists of streaming numbers.
