The Queen's death means the fabric of life changes forever - The Yorkshire Post says
The question is, how do we protect and preserve everthing that Queen Elizabeth II stood for when her image begins to disappear from all that we encounter daily?
Our tender and stamps show her picture; leading barristers have already become King’s Counsel, not Queen’s Counsel; the Armed Forces will pledge allegiance to the King.
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Hide AdHow odd it will be to sing and to hear the National Anthem without the words ‘God save the Queen’.
For most of us, she has been a constant in a bewildering and often scary world.
How reassuring she was when, during the pandemic, she invoked the war time poignancy of Vera Lynn by promising us: ‘We’ll meet again’.
Only our octogenarian readers, and those who are older, will really have any idea what it is like to live under any monarch other than the late Queen.
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Hide AdFrench president Emmanuel Macron summed it up perfectly by saying that she represented a “sense of eternity”.
A beacon of unity for so many in Great Britain and beyond who, though unknowable, was at the same time all that we knew.
Prime Minister Liz Truss has said: “In an instant...our lives changed forever.
“Today we show the world that we do not fear what lies ahead.”
With a new premier and a new monarch in the space of just a few days, it has been nothing short of a remarkable week in British history. And it concludes a truly remarkable reign.