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Working on an essay to reflect this moment. 😢🇬🇧
In the interim, this photo and text from Getty Images photographer Chris Jackson via Twitter: "As the flag was lowered to half mast over Windsor Castle, an incredible rainbow appeared over the castle for a few minutes, and then, just like that, it was gone…"
Rest in Peace, Your Majesty. And thank you for your life of service, integrity, dignity and grace. Your era will long live in our hearts. ❤️👑🇬🇧
My tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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This was published in London's Daily Mirror and Charleston's The Post and Courier
I am an American, of English and Scottish descent, proud of my heritage, and certainly an Anglophile.
I have long loved, admired and respected Queen Elizabeth II and wish to pay her tribute from across the pond.
I saw Her Majesty once, but for a fleeting moment. I was on holiday in London, standing outside Buckingham Palace, awaiting the Changing of the Guard, when the gates opened and Her Majesty's car drove past. She was smiling, waving, wearing a mauve tinted hat, her car adorned with the Royal Standard. That image will stay with me always. And that memory will forever adorn my heart.
In her absence, something has gone out of the world - a stalwart dignity, a quiet grace, a presence as steady and dependable as the rising and setting of the sun and the turning of the tides.
Grand she was, grand she will forever remain, in heart, in legacy, in memory.
Thank you for sharing her with us and with the world. Long will she reign in our hearts.
I am grateful to have lived in the age of Elizabeth.
-- Michelle Lindsey
19 September 2022