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.

[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

[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.