🪦 👑Queen Elizabeth II

[Ealdwyn]

The vast majority of British citizens have never known anything else. There's almost a sense of shock... although at 96 it was hardly surprising.
It feels far different to a change of government or a change of Prime Minister (and we had one of those a few days ago), which happens every few years.

It's almost bizarre to think that her first Prime Minister was Winston Churchill

 

[Olorgando]

It's almost bizarre to think that her first Prime Minister was Winston Churchill

A trivia item from one news site: Churchill was born 1874, and the 16th Prime Minister (or 15th - Harold Wilson, like Churchill, returned to the office after having been voted out in a previous election) during Elisabeth II's reign, Liz Truss, appointed just two days before her death, was born 101 years later.

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

In a time of change in the UK (new PM and monarch in the same week - could be a record) at least there is one source of continuity:
Larry the Downing Street cat