One of the poignant aspects of last week’s trip to London (today was the Chunnel move to Paris) was that flowers and letters left in memory of Queen Elizabeth II had faded and were being cleaned up.
Here are some scenes from Green Park, next to Buckingham Palace:
At the intersection of aviation and English royalty, remembrances left in the Bomber Command Memorial, dedicated by QEII in 2012:
The death of a 96-year-old shouldn’t be a tragedy, but there is a sadness nonetheless. The guys doing the cleanup handled the bundles with care, despite the destination being a landfill.
Thanks Phil, that is appropriately poignant. I visited Green Park last September but did not see this monument, even though it’s right near the Wellington Arch. The airport where I hangar my plane is CZBB, one of many in Canada built in WWII to train pilots from all around the British Empire.
The Imperialist queen Elizabeth ?
Sorry , don’t feel any remorse on her death or for UK in general .
They looted India and many others. The Anglo Saxons are a guilty ppl .
https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/british-looted-45-trillion-from-india-in-todays-value-jaishankar/articleshow/71426353.cms
Count your blessings. You could have been colonized by the Belgians.
I was a bit surprised by the days-long outpouring of grief. My standard assumption is to think that the postmodern world is far too cynical, sophizzzticated and jaded to pay much attention to the life and death of a 96 year old monarch, but I was wrong. There was something permanent, stable and comforting about QEII that so many people were “tuned into.” She may be the last Western monarch for whom that is true.
Boy, they milked that for as long as they could.
I would too if it got me a couple days off of work!