For Crown and Country.
What makes someone dedicate their entire life, "whether it be long or short" to one thing, without wavering?
I was shocked when I heard the news of Queen Elizabeth’s passing yesterday, which was pretty silly. The woman was 96, and Windsor Castle doctors had that morning suggested they ‘were concerned’ about the Queen’s health, which is not a phrase that is used lightly in the press. At 1:30 pm she passed away peacefully in her beloved Balmoral in Scotland, no doubt a premeditated location by Her Majesty, and just after she had welcomed her 15th UK Prime Minister (out of 170 total PM’s throughout her realm), to the fold. Talk about stamina.
I shed more than a few tears for HMTQ, as I am prone to tears about any death, and especially one that was the surest sovereign a country could have, even though it wasn’t mine.
The Queen embodied ‘stiff upper lip and all that’ as almost all monarchs, excepting David, before her have. Not hanging your dirty laundry out to dry is very regal, and to be emula…
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