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God save the King!
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
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
no subject
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.
no subject
Agreed. Having good treaties with the UK is beneficial, but how close of governmental ties do you really need?