The death of Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of an era, indeed, several eras. She is being mourned throughout the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and well beyond. Serving over an extraordinary span of seven decades, Queen Elizabeth was recognized throughout the world as a leader of uncommon character and devotion to duty. She will be greatly missed.
The Queen embodied the British command to “Keep Calm and Carry On,” a phrase that originated in a World War II poster. In recent years, it has, perhaps, become popularized and commercialized to a tiresome extent, but it continued to reflect the determination of the country—and its Queen—to remain steadfast through challenging times.
As a personal matter, I have been a licensed Anglophile since June 5, 1965. On that date, I married Angela Macintosh, who had arrived from England two years before. Over the succeeding years, we have had our own share of challenges and more, no doubt, are not far ahead. But whatever comes we will endeavor to keep calm and carry on, and we could ask no better example than the Queen.
Such a loving statement
Well-said. I am also a licensed Anglophile…partly by birth, reinforced by the “junior year abroad” I did at the University of Edinburgh…and by my close friendship with a girl I met there, whom I have visited in London every few years since. Anyhow, I’ve obviously sent her (and her elder son, my godson) my condolences, and share in their sadness. To quote my godson, “she [the Queen] was a brilliant figurehead and if only her bonkers family could manage to follow by her example…”
Please extend my condolences to Angela as well.
“Forgiveness the key to happiness”. The Queen was a forgiving lady. May that continue forever under King Charles and his family.
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