God save the King!

[thewayne]

RIP Queen Elizabeth the Second. She passed peacefully at Balmoral Thursday afternoon with most of the immediate family present.

Prince Charles is now King Charles the Third. It took over a year between Elizabeth becoming Queen and her formal coronation, no telling how long it will take for Charles to get his, lots of pomp and circumstance to be organized.

A sad day for the UK.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/queen-elizabeth-ii-dead-obit-1311378


Charles became King automatically on the death of Elizabeth, but there's lots of things to be done. Info on the process of the transfer of the Crown:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59135132

Comments

[rain_gryphon]

A sad day for all of us.

[kathmandu]

I had no idea it could take so long to arrange a coronation.

Elizabeth II had been queen for so long, she's the only monarch of England that many of us remember. This is the end of an era.

[thewayne]

Apparently lots of work behind the scenes to set up a coronation.  Who knew crowning a king could be so complicated?!   They do want to make sure everything goes exactly to plan, so it does pay to get every detail perfectly rehearsed. My dad, and a few of my friends parents were around before she became queen, but were also not terribly concerned with it as they were living in the depth of the Great Depression and World War 2 and such and had other things to worry about.

[mtbc]

I suppose they're out of practice.

[thewayne]

Heh.  They lost the adapter to power up the Arch Bishop and gotta order a new one. ;)

[disneydream06]

I am watching the specials on ABC tonight, and one of the people on there said it could be as early as 3 months. :o
That seems really early. :o
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

Interesting!  Yeah, I'd say that's too soon.  They don't need to do it, as he is already fully king.  Give the UK time to mourn: she was around a very long time, give them a year.

[disneydream06]

Agreed.
If nothing else, wait until after all the holidays are done.

[silveradept]

We are sad for the loss of a 96 year-old woman, although it's definitely true that she had a good innings.

It might also be a good time for many countries that have been nominal subjects of the Queen to fully transition themselves to parliamentary democracies in their own right, to remove the last vestiges of an empire and a system they haven't actively practiced in a long while.

[thewayne]

Agreed.  Having good treaties with the UK is beneficial, but how close of governmental ties do you really need?